Mitchell Shapiro has more than fifteen years experience as a consultant and writer in the telecommunications industry.

Before founding Broadband Markets, Shapiro was a consultant with Pangrac & Associates, where he worked on a range of projects focused on broadband equipment markets, advanced network architectures, competitive broadband strategies and business models, and development of a nationwide database of broadband markets and service providers.

Prior to joining P&A, Shapiro was a senior vice president at Probe Research, responsible for the company's Broadband Network Subscription Service. This service provided some of the world's largest telecommunications firms with data and analysis on broadband network and CPE deployments and the associated equipment markets. Mr. Shapiro also served as director of Probe's satellite research program.

While at Probe, Shapiro completed a 375-page study entitled Superhighway Scenarios: An Analysis of Full Competition in the Local Loop. The report provided the industry's first comprehensive model of full service competition following passage of the 1996 Telecommunications Act. Shapiro also authored Utilities' Telecommunications Strategies during his tenure as a senior Probe analyst. This 280-page report provided a comparative review of the telecom-related strategies of more than seventy electric utilities.

Shapiro's consulting work has included the following:

• competitive analyses of future advanced services markets for developers of new satellite and terrestrial broadband platforms
• forecasts of broadband network investments for equipment suppliers
• a comparative analysis of telco alliance-building strategies for a major telecom service provider
• an analysis of pricing and marketing strategies and revenue opportunities for a top-10 cable MSO planing to enter the telephone market
• an analysis of regional network opportunities for a top-10 cable MSO
• a cash flow analysis for an LEC considering entry into the video market.

In addition to his consulting work, Shapiro has written numerous articles published in leading industry trade publications, including Lightwave, Cablevision, Cable and Satellite Europe, Television Business International, The Cable-Telco Report and Advanced Television Markets. He currently co-authors a Broadband column in Lightwave magazine and is a regular contributor to Fat Pipe, a magazine on marketing broadband services, and Advanced TV, a UK-based newsletter focused on global markets for next-generation TV platforms and services.

Prior to joining Probe, Shapiro spent more than five years as an analyst with Paul Kagan Associates, where he was responsible for the company's research on technology trends and markets in the cable television and wireless telecom industries.

At PKA Shapiro served as primary analyst for Cable TV Technology, a newsletter widely viewed as an authoritative source of cable industry data and analysis, and Cellular Technology, a newsletter focused on technology trends and issues in cellular and PCS markets. In this capacity Shapiro managed annual surveys of top-50 MSOs and prepared forecasts of cable industry capital spending and technology deployments, and analyses of vendor shares in broadband equipment markets. He also regularly contributed to PKA publications dealing with the MMDS and DBS and with programming, marketing and regulatory issues.

Before joining PKA, Shapiro worked for the State of Michigan and the Michigan Citizens Lobby, where he conducted a statewide survey measuring the impacts on consumers of the A&T divestiture and helped draft state telecommunications legislation. Prior to that Mr. Shapiro served as an economist and manager at the New York City Department of Finance.

Shapiro has designed and managed mail, telephone and in-person surveys, including a study of cable and broadcast audience segments. He holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Michigan and an M.A. in Telecommunications from Michigan State University, where he taught a course in media research methodology.