The Carmel Group

The Carmel Group has, since 1995, provided world class, in-depth, independent consulting, research and analyses of the global and U.S. domestic cable, satellite, telephone, wireless, and broadcast businesses, as well as more specific advanced telecommunication subsectors, such as HDTV, Interactive TV (iTV), digital video recorders (DVR), video on demand (VOD), Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP), Internet Protocol TV (IPTV), video gaming and Broadband. For 10+ years, The Carmel Group has leveraged its extensive and world-renowned knowledge to assist corporate clients with invaluable strategic consulting, networking, fundraising and litigation services, in addition to organizing annual conferences featuring top industry leaders and the publishing of newsletters, databooks, white papers and special reports. We offer clients around the world the best intelligence and strategic guidance, thus allowing each to enhance its position and profitability within its industry segment (or within new industry segments). Our clients are the focus of everything we do.

The Carmel Group was founded in 1995, in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA, with the vision of delivering the world’s best information services to the world’s pre-eminent telecommunications concerns, be they within the private industry sector or government, national or international, for profit or not for profit.

Early focus was on the satellite TV business. In the 10+ years since, The Carmel Group has added cable, wireless, telephony, and many advanced services to its levels of expertise, as well as the larger topic areas of overall media and consumer electronics (e.g., computers). The Carmel Group is also a world-renowned expert in the areas of advanced services, including the new telecom, entertainment and computer sub-categories of broadband, Internet Protocol TV (IPTV), Voice over Internet Protocol (IPTV), video games, Interactive TV (iTV), Video-On-Demand (VOD), Digital Video Recorders (DVRs), High Definition TV (HDTV), and satellite radio.

Recent focused consulting studies have also included a survey of small-to-medium-sized cable company concerns, telephone spending and growth in Europe, the economic effects of convergence on the California economy through 2010, a survey of cable VOD vs. satellite DVRs, the likes and dislikes of 1,800 U.S. DVR and non-DVR users, and strategic company purchase opportunities for a large vendor in tomorrow’s global telecom economy. Publications of The Carmel Group include one-of-a-kind articles and blogs, as well as the databooks 2002 North America DBS, 2000 Asia DBS and Unlocking Cable’s Potential: A Guide To Revenue Growth In An Age Of Piracy.

The Carmel Group is also the host of numerous best-in-class annual conferences, which have covered the areas of telephony, cable, wireless and satellite television and radio, Advanced Interactive Multimedia (AIM) services, video games, advertising, Video-On-Demand, Digital Video Recorders and High Definition TV (HDTV). Content delivered in and to these mediums has also been an additional area of The Carmel Group’s expertise, since its inception. Conference keynote presenters typically include the top people in their fields, such as FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, FCC Commissioners Jonathan Adelstein and Andrew Barrett, former Comcast, AT&T and GM Hughes Chairman C. Michael Armstrong, and author-scientist-visionary, Sir Arthur Clarke. The highest level executives from companies in the industries represented are typical attendees of events hosted by The Carmel Group, thus these conferences and dinners become fertile grounds for networking and discussing business with new industry executives. The late November 2006 satellite financial conference, ISIS-NYC ‘06 is the next major event involving The Carmel Group’s networking and expertise.

The principals of The Carmel Group, Jimmy Schaeffler and Sean Badding, are frequently and regularly tapped to deliver presentations and keynote addresses to leading industry gatherings, such as those organized by the NAB, the once Western Cable Show/CCTA, CES, ISCe and ISIS, as well as by indivudal company groups. Their writings, opinions, data and expertise have been frequently offered in daily papers such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times and the Financial Times, as well as magazines such as Time, Newsweek and Business Week. As one industry professional recently noted, “It’s amazing what you guys have created in such a brief time frame.”

About The Carmel Group

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