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On-Site Training and Consultations:

Barry Orton

Professor

Telephone: 608-262-2394; e-mail: bmorton@facstaff.wisc.edu

Service available: Personal consultation

Areas of Expertise: Telecommunications policy and regulation, Internet utilization

About the consultation:

Municipal cable TV franchise oversight: franchise renewals; transfer of ownership; consumer protection; additional franchises, internet use, telecommunication economics.

Who can benefit:

Local government officials, attorneys, telecommunications providers, internet businesses

About this consultant:

Dr. Barry Orton is Professor of Telecommunications in the Department of Professional Development and Applied Studies, Division of Continuing Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a veteran consultant to cable television franchising authorities, and specializes in telecommunications planning and public opinion research in addition to broadband policy and regulation.

Barry Orton was a founder of the National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors, the professional organization of local telecommunications regulators. He directs the UW-Madison's outreach seminars and consulting service in local cable franchise administration and is on the Board of Contributors of the legal newsletter Cable TV and New Media Law and Finance and the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Municipal Telecommunications.

In addition, Professor Orton has been active in teaching professionals how to utilize the Internet. He is listowner of Telecomreg, the respected Internet listserv dealing with electronic infrastructure issues.

Dr. Orton's PhD and Masters are from Rutgers in Urban and Regional Planning, he also has a B.S. in Business and Economics from Lehigh University. Before joining the UW faculty in 1980, he was on the Rutgers faculty in Journalism and Mass Communications.

More about Barry Orton.

Organizations that have sponsored consulting:

Wisconsin Department of Justice

Milwaukee Regional Telecommunications Commission

South Suburban Mayors and Managers Association

Will County Governmental League (Joliet, IL)

Wisconsin Hospital Association

City of Milwaukee

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