Barry Orton

Professor, Telecommunications
Consultant to telecommunications regulators
Send e-mail to bmorton@wisc.edu

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Teaching Interests

• Telecommunications Policy
• Internet Utilization
• Cable Television Regulation

Programs at PDAS

• On-site Training and consultation

Current Projects

• Cable TV franchise renewal consultant to numerous municipalities
• Monitoring cable overbuild efforts by telephone companies
• The creation of "virtual communities" on the Net
• Telecommunications policy consultant to local governments

Background/Education

• B.S. in Business and Economics, Lehigh University
• M.C.R.P. in City and Regional Planning, Rutgers
• PhD in City and Regional Planning, Rutgers

Related Resources

• National Assn. of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors
• CABLE: Other telecommunications, cable, Internet-related resources; maintained by UW's Dave Devereaux-Weber
• 7-7-2000 Statement to FCC regarding merger of AOL and Time-Warner
• FCC AOL-TW en banc hearing
• Orton Resume/CV
• On-site training and consulting with Barry Orton
• 9-24-2002 Capital Times opinion article
• 10-16-02 Statement to the FCC regarding local Public Rights-of-Way management and compensation (140k PDF document)
• Transcription of entire 10-16-02 FCC Public Rights-of-Way Forum (408k PDF document)
• FCC Rights-of-Way Forum in streaming video
• 1-22-2004 Capital Times opinion article
• 1-27-2006 Capital Times article on phone company cable regulation
• 7-23-2006  Milwaukee JournalSentinel opinion article on "net neutrality" http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=474822

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The Cable Guy Orton profile from Madison Magazine

About this picture

Barry Orton with Walter Cronkite at a 2002 WisEye(http://www.wiseye.org) Event