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Telecommunications Services
Turmoil in the communications arena presents both users and suppliers of communications services and equipment with unprecedented opportunities, as well as very serious threats. TFI provides information, forecasts, analysis, and strategic insights which support business decisions involving wireless and wireline communications technologies and markets including voice, video, and data applications. We also provide customized enterprise network studies to address the strategic communication network concerns of executives and boards for large enterprises. In terms of talent, experience, and proven track record, TFI is uniquely qualified to assist forward-thinking companies to operate effectively in the rapidly-changing communications environment.
Clients typically use TFI Telecommunications to:
- Identify, forecast, and evaluate advances in telecom technology and markets.
- Develop strategic technology, market, and financial plans.
- Provide outside review of plans and forecasts.
- Plan and supervise the installation of advanced communications systems.
- Estimate economic lives and depreciation schedules for telecom investment.
- Provide expert witness testimony in regulatory and other proceedings.
TFI Telecommunications is particularly valuable if you are a decision maker responsible for integrating market, financial, and technology factors, e.g., a business or product development manager, strategic planner, financial manager, and technology expert. Our experience and proven results in identifying generations of communications technologies for carriers gives us additional added value for large companies and institutions. Our enterprise networking services allow us to assist such organizations harness costs and seize opportunities in their own telecommunications strategies.
Each year, TFI conducts a number of special research projects and publishes the results of these projects in reports which are available to the public. Many of these projects and reports are sponsored by the Telecommunications Technology Forecasting Group, which is comprised of major North American local exchange carriers. Recent research projects include subjects such as interactive multimedia, local area network services, advanced video services, computer technology, and wireless and cable voice services. TFI also presents the results of our continuing research activities in a series of executive briefings and seminars.
For five years, TFI published New Telecom Quarterly, a journal that presents some of the forefront thinking on developments in the telecom industry and their consequences for the industry and its clients.
Our client list includes long distance carriers, vendors, service providers, and communications service users.
Clients who have utilized TFI Telecommunications include, among many others, Verizon, Qwest, AT&T, ACS, GSA, Telus, Bell Canada, SureWest, Windstream Communications, BellSouth, and Sprint/Nextel.
If you believe TFI can be of assistance to you in the Telecommunications area, please contact Carrie Vanston by telephone at (512) 258-8898 or (800) TEK-FUTR, by fax at (512) 258-0087, or by e-mail at cvanston@tfi.com. We welcome your inquiries.