Dr. David Gabel, CEO Gabel Communications Limited is a key associate of EKonomics LLC, professor of Economics at the City University of New York and a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

David's area of specialization is telecommunications. His research has covered the evolution of telecommunications during the first competitive era of telephony, 1894 to 1913, through to current developments in telephony. Recently, his focus has been on interconnection pricing in network industries, cost structures in telecommunications, retail pricing of network services by rivals, and the deployment of advanced telecommunications services.

David's work has appeared in The Journal of Economic History, Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, Journal of Regulatory Economics, Law and Policy, Federal Communications Law Journal, and Telecommunications Policy. He has coauthored monographs on the cost structure of the telecommunications industry and the regulatory policies of the United Kingdom and New Zealand and is the co-editor of Opening Networks to Competition: The Regulation and Pricing of Access (Kluwer 1998). David was instrumental in developing the LECOM cost proxy model.