Telecom
The rapid evolution in the telecommunications industry has challenged telecom companies as they navigate through technological, market, regulatory and secular changes. The Telecommunications, Media & Technology team at FTI Consulting has extensive expertise in all telecom sectors, including wireline, wireless, cable, satellite, original equipment manufacturers, data centres and value-added resellers.
Our highly qualified consultants — PhDs, MBAs, CPAs and information technology and technology professionals, as well as former chief executive officers, chief financial officers, chief information officers, industry executives, principal investors, investment bankers, lenders, communications specialists and economists - use financial and operational metrics to assess and address the critical factors that drive telecom company value.
How We Help
Data Centers & Managed Services
For more than a decade, the Telecommunications team at FTI Consulting has provided a unique combination of...
For more than a decade, the Telecommunications team at FTI Consulting has provided a unique combination of strategic, financial and operational expertise to dozens of wireless service buyers and sellers, satellite operators, tower operators and equipment manufacturers in the United States, Europe, Asia and Latin America. Our professionals leverage their wireless telecom experience to assess the key factors that drive (or detract from) value. Using a data- and metrics-based approach, we evaluate the viability of a business plan, determine strategic alternatives, articulate a value proposition or recommend and implement performance improvement tactics.
Telecoms and Broadcasting Regulation
The Economic and Financial Consulting practice of FTI Consulting provides clients with clear and rigorous...
The Economic and Financial Consulting practice of FTI Consulting provides clients with clear and rigorous analysis of the complex economic and financial issues that is needed in legal and regulatory proceedings, strategic decisions and public policy debates.
We have expertise in telecoms costing, economics, regulation and business and understand how to bring together thinking in these areas to get to the right answer. Our litigation expertise means that the answers we develop are robust to challenge. We have helped incumbents, new entrants and regulators in all areas of regulation including regulatory policy and strategy, the regulatory mechanics of market analysis and price setting, and support in appeals and dispute cases.
Most recently we have been helping BT in a dispute relating to cost orientation, providing expert witness support to the appeal proceedings at the Competition Appeals Tribunal and also assessing Ofcom’s proposals to reform the regulatory financial reporting regime.
Our Service Offerings include regulatory submissions, costing and profitability analysis, regulatory accounting, pricing cases under competition law - margin squeeze and predatory pricing, market assessments, efficiency studies, state aid, and spectrum auctions.
Wireless
For more than a decade, the Telecommunications team at FTI Consulting has provided a unique combination of...
For more than a decade, the Telecommunications team at FTI Consulting has provided a unique combination of strategic, financial and operational expertise to dozens of wireless service buyers and sellers, satellite operators, tower operators and equipment manufacturers in the United States, Europe, Asia and Latin America. Our professionals leverage their wireless telecom experience to assess the key factors that drive (or detract from) value. Using a data- and metrics-based approach, we evaluate the viability of a business plan, determine strategic alternatives, articulate a value proposition or recommend and implement performance improvement tactics.
Wireline
Since 1996, the FTI Consulting Telecommunications team has assisted wireline companies, equity holders and...
Since 1996, the FTI Consulting Telecommunications team has assisted wireline companies, equity holders and creditors through good times and bad throughout the developed and developing world. Working with a broad range of service providers, including incumbent, competitive and rural local exchange carriers; fibre-based carriers; cable operators; and data centres, our professionals leverage a unique combination of strategic, financial and operational expertise to assess key factors that affect value. We use a data- and metrics-based approach to evaluate the viability of a business plan, determine strategic alternatives, articulate a value proposition or recommend and implement performance improvement tactics.
