TeleCom Services provides advisory services to the telecommunications industry. We specialize in the detailed analysis of markets, technologies, customers, and suppliers. It is the interaction of these diverse elements that determine the matrix of strategies available to individual companies in specific markets segments in various stages of their life cycles.

Today's telecommunications markets are among the most competitive in history. New technologies, a contradictory and confused regulatory environment, and evolving user needs alter the competitive landscape on a daily basis.

For our clients, launching new products, responding to competitive threats, incorporating new technologies and interfacing with strategically designed front and back office systems have become a continuous process. Failure at any point in the process can be a disaster.

WHAT WE DO
TeleCom Services provides detailed market analysis, assessment of technology alternatives and competitive analysis for telecommunications-related products and markets worldwide.

We assess pricing strategies, technology adoption, market growth and product configuration in a proprietary integrated framework. This framework includes the recognition that within the competitive landscape for a particular product or service, numerous companies with vastly different goals, resource pools, capital structures, systems capabilities and organizational structures are all players. At any time one can be key in altering pricing and technology for all.

WHO WE DO IT FOR
TeleCom Services has completed numerous proprietary studies and analyses for players in every segment of the industry, including Interexchange Carriers (IXCs), Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers (ILECs), Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs), other service providers, equipment suppliers, distributors and the financial community.

SAMPLE AREAS OF STUDY
TeleCom Services' Associates, with specific areas of expertise, have conducted hundreds of strategic studies and implemented development programs for key industry participants in the areas of, for example:

Comprehensive Methodologies and our proprietary analytical framework insure that "no stone is left unturned" in the quest for essential market drivers and critical success factors.

OUR APPROACH
Our client philosophy is Partner-Driven, with Client Objectives internalized as our own. By maintaining consistent, close communication with our clients we ensure projects meet critical needs and objectives. TeleCom Services' Associates are all career industry professionals, with over 300 years of cumulative industry experience. All projects are managed on a "Hands-On" basis with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to insure optimal input for client decision-making.

The breadth and depth of our industry knowledge and contacts adds to our ability to extract fact from fiction in an ever-changing, increasingly competitive technology marketplace. We stay close to industry developments and anticipate dynamics. We maintain memberships in numerous industry groups and associations such as: Competitive Telecommunications Association (CompTel), Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA), International Prepaid Communications Association (IPCA), Multimedia Telecommunications Association (MMTA), and the New York New Media Association (NYNMA).

Our vast industry experiences are supplemented by advanced degrees from the most prestigious universities.