Kalba International is a global telecommunications consulting group founded and led by Dr. Kas Kalba.  Our projects are led and managed by experienced consultants, including members of the firm’s core management.  The Core Team members bring in-depth consulting, operating, and investment management skills to the group and our clients.

Kas Kalba, President and CEO, has directed successful strategy, regulatory, investment and market entry consultancies across 100 countries. In the process, he has advised on $30 billions of transactions, auctions and procurements. He has also led many digital planning and development projects for governments and multilaterals as well as many multi-country projects in the satellite and undersea cable domains.

In his regulatory work, which began with the editing of a law review at Yale Law School, Kas has focused on licensing, spectrum assignment and universal service provision. For exam-ple, he has assessed how regulatory, spectrum and taxation regimes have affected the de-ployment of networks and related infrastructure investment in a dozen countries in Africa and Asia. His experience also includes the assessment of MVNO licensing and viability, digital ID and mobile money apps, and “free smartphone” and digital literacy projects.

In terms of transactions, he has led a variety of due diligence, transaction structuring, partner assessment, and PPP formation cases in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America. On the market side, he specializes in demand and innovation adoption aspects and has also managed market surveys on six continents. He has also led many multi-country projects in the satellite and undersea cable domains. As for spectrum auctions, he has trained operators on how to bid (specializing in unexpected occurrences) as well as advised governments on the structuring of auctions and reverse auctions.

Kas has previously served on graduate faculties at Harvard and MIT, and has been nominated for economics chairs at Delft and Yale universities.