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PDS
Consulting was founded in 2001 by Peter D. Shapiro, Ph.D.
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Peter
Shapiro is a Principal at PDS Consulting and is responsible for PDS
Consulting's client assignments.
Earlier,
as
Vice President of Corporate Strategy
at OrderTrust, a B2B provider of order management for e-commerce
merchants, he developed new service concepts for emerging
opportunities in iTV and mobile commerce, building on OrderTrust's existing order
management platform.
As
senior
consultant and Principal at Arthur D. Little,
Inc., specializing in cable and telecommunications, Peter Shapiro
led marketing strategy, market
assessments, and industry analyses for clients in the United States, Europe,
Latin America and Asia-Pacific including operators of telecommunications,
satellite, and
cable TV services, equipment suppliers, bankers, attorneys, and governments.
Peter
Shapiro serves on the Board of Advisors of Toktumi, a VoIP services start-up that
is targeting small business customers.
He holds a Ph.D. in Communications Research from Stanford
University and a BA from University of British Columbia. His 1972 doctoral thesis, which analyzed development of embryonic cable TV
programming networks, is in the collection at the Cable
Center, the cable
industry museum, in Denver. Click here for printer-friendly
biography of Peter Shapiro.
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PDS
Consulting is an affiliate of Harvard University's Program on Information Resources Policy
(PIRP) where Peter Shapiro served as a post-doctoral research fellow.
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Stuart
Lipoff. Telecommunications, wireless, cable, and consumer
electronics technology |
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Jeffrey
Maul. Wireless and satellite systems technology |
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Todd
Burger. Process improvements - Operations, Logistics, Supply
Chain |
 | Roger
Hay. Telecommunications technologies and engineering |
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Peter
Fetterolf. Data networking |
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Louis
Kaczmarek. Network procurement and management |
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Steve
Low. Asset valuation and financial analysis |
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Jeffrey
Wickham. Procurement cost savings and business process
improvement |
 | Fred
Goldstein. Competitive telecommunications markets and CLEC
business planning |
Publications, Presentations & Media References
Postings
 | "Slow Going for Mobile Video"
16 November 2009. Check it out! |
 | "Going Boldly Where Broadband
Has Not Gone Before" 4 August 2009. Check it out! |
 | "Big Issues at Stake in FCC
Broadband Inquiry" 26 May 2009. Check it out! |
 | "Interactive TV is Back" 9
April 2009. Check it out! |
 | "What Do Young People Want from
Cable?" 17 Feb 2009. Check it out! |
 | "Quadruple Play Takeaways for US
Cable Operators," 2 Dec 08. Check it out! |
 | "Mobile Wireless Multimedia in
Cable's Future," 29 Oct 08. Check it out! |
 | "Flirting with Converged
Services," 24 Oct 08. Check it out! |
 | "Is DISH Cooked?" 2 Oct 08. Check it out! |
 | "Verizon Blinks and Averts
Strike," 12 Aug 08. Check it out! |
 | "Deadline Time for Verizon &
Unions," 29 July 08. Check it out! |
 | "AT&T Clearing Deck for DBS
Partner Deal," 29 July 08. Check it out! |
 | "Will GE Buy Yahoo!?" 26 June
08. Check it out! |
 | "Verizon at Brink of
Strike," 11 June 08. Check it out! |
 | "Missing - NCTA Sessions About
Competition," 22 May 08. Check it out! |
 | "Investment Analysts See Upside
for Cable," 21 May 08. Check it out! |
 | "Geography is Destiny," 20 May
08. Check it out! |
 | "FiOS Free & Easy Spin on
Digital Transition," 8 April 08. Check it out! |
 | "Making Love, Not War, with
P2P," 27 Mar 08. Check it out! |
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"The HD Arms Race," 11 Mar
08. Check it out! |
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"Telcos Unsheathing Wireless
Weapon," 9 Jan 08. Check it out! |
Columns
 | "VoIP
Providers Push New Pricing Models," December 17, 2007. Check it out! |
 | "AT&T
Homezone Fills a Service Gap," November 12-December 9, 2007. Check it out! |
 | "AT&T
U-verse by the Numbers," October 15-November 11, 2007. Check it out! |
 | "Critical Mass
for Internet TV," August 13-26, 2007. Check it out! |
 | "Getting on
the Web," July 16-29, 2007. Check it out! |
 | "Positive Side
of Video Competition," May 21- June 17, 2007. Check it out! |
 | "A Wireless
Option," May 7-20, 2007. Check it out! |
 | "Wall-to-Wall
Verizon," April 2-15, 2007. Check it out! |
 | "FiOS VOD, a
Work in Progress," March 5-18, 2007. Check it out! |
 | "Sampling FiOS,"
February 5-18, 2007. Check it out! |
 | "For DBS the
Clock is Ticking," January 8-21, 2007. Check it out! |
 | "Stay Trim,
Fight Light," December 4-17, 2006. Check it out! |
 | "The Internet
Ad Boom," November 13-19, 2006. Check it out! |
 | "Cable's Other
Front in the Telco Wars," October 9-22, 2006. Check it out! |
 | "Internet TV:
Threat..., or Opportunity," September 11-24, 2006. Check it out! |
 | "AT&T's
Video Looks Fuzzy," August 14-27, 2006. Check it out! |
 | "Make Like the CIA and Gather Intelligence,"
July 17-30, 2006. Check it out! |
 | "The Telco Giants' Wireless Weapon,"
June 12-15, 2006. Check it out! |
 | "Promise of FiOS Will Come at a Cost,"
May 15-28, 2006. Check it out! |
 | "PODs
Pose a Quandary for Cable Ops," (co-authored) Multichannel
News - Forum, 3 March 2003. Check
it out!
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 | "Cable
TV System Capacity," submitted to the FCC by the National Cable
& Telecommunications Association - 16 October 2001 Check
it out!
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“Web
Lesson: Plan for iTV Orders Early,” Multichannel News – Forum,
13 February 2001. Check
it out!
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“Cable
Should Take a Fresh Look at Access,” (co-authored) Multichannel News
– Forum, 18 October 1999
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“Tracking Electronic Commerce: Signals of Change,”
Arthur D. Little Prism, 1Q1999
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“Cable ready to enter picture,” Boston Business
Journal – FOCUS Telecommunications, September 1994
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“Embrace Principal of Universal Access,”
(co-authored) Multichannel News – Forum, 8 November 1993
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“Beyond Transport: Cable’s Potential Role in
PCS,” Decision Resources Spectrum, January 1992
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“Cable TV Strategy for Telcos,” Communications
Week – Perspective, April 1989
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“Opportunities for U.S. Telephone Companies in Cable
TV,” ADL Decision Resources Spectrum, August 1988
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“Cable
industry lacks strategy to meet VCR threat head-on,” (co-authored) Multichannel
News – Forum, 1986. |
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“U.S. Telecommunications Regulation in the 1980s,” Forbes,
10 November 1980
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“Telecommunications and Industrial Development,” IEEE
Transactions on Communications, March 1976 |
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“Business Communications in the Next Decade,” Business Communications
Review, July-August 1975 |
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“Information Industries in the United States,” (co-authored) 1975
Britannica Book of the Year, Encyclopedia Britannica©, 1975
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Conferences, Presentations...
 | “Online Economy
and the Mailstream,” Strategy Forum at Pitney Bowes, November 2006. Check it out! |
 | “New
Directions for Telecommunications,” Seminar leader, CTAM national conference, Boston, July
1996 |
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Chairman, Cable Telephony ’96, ICM Conference, July 1996 |
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“Cable Telephony: Competing with the Telcos,” Presentation to New York
Society of Securities Analysts, May 1996 |
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“Interacting Internationally: Learning from Experience,” Convergence
Conference on Interactive TV, February 1995 |
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“Success Factors for Cable Telephony,” TeleStrategies Cable Telephony
conference, November 1994 |
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“Competition in the Local Exchange – Market Overview,” TeleStrategies
conference, July 1992 |
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“PCS Role for Cable TV” National Communications Forum, October 1991 |
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“Market Overview and Analysis of Residential Services,” TeleStrategies
– Residential Telecommunications, October 1991 |
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“Market Opportunities for Cable TV in Personal Communications Services,”
TeleStrategies – conference on cable TV & PCS, May 1991 |
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“PCN Services Market in America” CableLabs Conference on PCN and Cable,
January 1991 |
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“Prosperity for Cable TV: Outlook 1985-1990,” Opening Session of
National Cable Television Association conference, Las Vegas 1985 |
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“Videotex Prospects and Questions,” session chairman, Intelcom-80,
November 1980 |
Interviewed, quoted, and cited in...
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National Public Radio Morning Edition concerning SBC-PacTel merger,
April 1996 |
 | Public Radio
International Marketplace, on
signing of Telecommunications Act, February 1996.
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National Public Radio Morning Edition concerning
AT&T job cuts, January 1996 |
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“AT&T to eliminate 40,000 jobs,” USA
Today, 3 January 1996 |
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“Dialing for dollars – Video dial tone,” Convergence,
May 1995 |
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“Ad blitz aims to narrow credibility gap,” USA Today, March 1995 |
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“Nynex cleared for cable service,” The Boston Herald, 10 December
1994 |
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“Alliance to develop TV service package,” USA Today, 27 September
1994 |
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“Baby Bells call on Hollywood,” The Financial Times, 6 September
1994 |
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“Paving the info highway,” Boston Business
Journal, 23 June 1994 |
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“Gates, McCaw plan to shoot for the stars,”
22
March 1994.
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“And now, 12-step TV,”
21 March 1994
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“Dizzying array of phone, cable TV choices looms,” USA Today, 18
March 1994 |
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“Foot-dragging clouds cable’s expectations of rosy future,” Cablevision,
14 April 1986 |
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