WiseHarbor | Expert advice, advocacy, and testimony in global wireless & mobile communications

What we do

WiseHarbor provides independent research, consulting and expert testimony on commercial, financial and economic issues across the information and communications technology (ICT) sector. Our work combines deep technological understanding with market, business and financial analysis. We help clients and the courts understand how technology markets work, rather than merely how technologies operate.

Assignments address business models, market structure, competition, technology commercialization, intellectual property licensing, valuation, damages assessment, investment economics and strategic or tactical advantage. Scope encompasses communications networks, digital platforms, artificial intelligence and related technology markets.

Analyses may include addressable-market size forecasts, investment-return assessments, market and company valuations, competitive-effects analysis, damages calculations and determination of reasonable royalty rates in licensing matters.

What Makes Us Different

Commercial Focus

Technology expertise informs the analysis. The end product is analysis of market behavior, business outcomes, financial value and economic consequence.

Layered ecosystem view

WiseHarbor understands the commercial relationships among various players, such as device and equipment suppliers, network operators, MVNAs, MVNOs, MVNEs, tower companies, software platforms, cloud providers, patent licensors and other ecosystem participants.

Independence

WiseHarbor has focused client relationships. This avoids conflicts of interest that pervade very large and multi-client advisory businesses dependent on consulting and subscription fees from many in the same sector.

Published research

Keith Mallinson is the author of numerous industry reports, articles and academic publications on ICT topics including mobile communications, software and standard-essential technology licensing over more than two decades. Recent work in emerging AI extends to data center infrastructure economics and digital-platform business models.

Expert testimony

WiseHarbor provides expert analysis and testimony in litigation, arbitration, merger reviews, antitrust matters, licensing disputes, valuation exercises and damages assessments. Keith Mallinson has an excellent track record with his expert reports, in depositions and testifying in court in dozens of cases over 25 years.

Research, consulting and expert testimony in mobile, digital platforms and AI

WiseHarbor helps clients and the courts identify where value is created, who captures it and where strategic or tactical advantage is being obtained in technology markets.