Telecommunications

The telecommunications team at FTI Consulting has helped clients navigate the rapid evolution of the telecommunications industry since 1998. Our industry experts are dedicated to helping telecom companies and their stakeholders at every stage of the corporate life cycle to prosper in the midst of technological, market and secular change.

The experts in our telecommunications group have the knowledge and experience to assist clients with leading business transformations, improving performance, de-leveraging balance sheets, managing mergers or divestitures and much more. In every instance, the team seeks to maximise client value. 

The telecommunications team has more than 65professionals, including PhDs, MBAs, registered accountants and IT and technology professionals, as well as former CEOs, CFOs, CIOs and industry executives, principal investors, investment bankers, lenders, communications specialists and economists. These highly qualified consultants use a multidisciplinary approach to provide balanced, experience-driven and objective guidance to clients on the critical issues faced by the telecommunications industry.

Performance Improvement

Some believe improvements in revenues are less controllable, less predictable – and, therefore, harder to achieve – than improvements in cost controls and efficiency. FTI Consulting disagrees. Based on our extensive work with financial sponsors and underperforming companies, we understand how to implement lasting, positive change quickly. We provide tangible, close-ended recommendations that produce rapid results.

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Operational Process Management

Our industry-specialised operational process management team helps clients achieve cost reductions and operational improvements in condensed time frames. We work with clients to implement best practices and to jettison practices that no longer work. At the same time, we balance the needs of legacy operations with newer sales and delivery systems.

Our operational process management team provide rigorous analyses and detailed project plans to ensure that change parameters and timetables are well founded and actionable, to make certain progress is tracked to schedule and to maintain a high level of accountability.  Our experts collaborate closely with management to improve operations and reduce costs in a condensed time frame by:

  • Rightsizing operations
  • Removing bottlenecks
  • Eliminating waste
  • Consolidating production
  • Evaluating outsourcing and in-sourcing options
  • Recording management of finished goods

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Strategic Communications

The telecommunications industry team within Strategic Communications consists of sector experts who have represented a broad range of organisations and companies, from multinationals to start-ups. Our clients benefit from the telecommunications team's network of relationships with key influencers.

The experienced and knowledgeable consultants on the team provide a comprehensive suite of integrated communications services, including:

  • Corporate communications
  • Financial communications
  • Public affairs
  • Creative engagement
  • Strategy Consulting & Research

 

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Merger Integration

The FTI Consulting merger integration team frames and analyses issues to help management make decisions that have far-reaching effects on recently merged companies. The team delivers industry-specific expertise, best practices, benchmarks, detailed integration and operations plans, as well as a dispassionate perspective on the newly merged entity.

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Interim Management

Investors and owners engage FTI Consulting to assist their companies through a critical stage or to achieve critical goals. A company’s challenges may be strategic, operational or performance weaknesses that lead to declining cash flow or loss of investor support and confidence. Most engagements are short, requiring a fully staffed, highly skilled management team to execute quickly on a business plan. We provide our clients specialised industry knowledge and technology expertise to ensure success, in the context of the speed and agility characteristic of our successful interim managers.

Our interim managers have extensive experience advising and collaborating with boards of directors, executive teams and all levels within functions to successfully navigate the turnaround process.  Our turnaround and crisis management teams know how to manage risk, reduce costs, improve liquidity and communicate effectively with stakeholders.

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Litigation Support

FTI Consulting combines extensive communications, media and entertainment industry experience with forensic investigations and litigation consulting. We provide law firms and corporations around the globe with a complete range of forensic and litigation services.

Our professionals have expert witness and expert report experience that combines skills in accounting, finance, economics, valuation, computer forensics and fraud investigation with industry knowledge. We have been intimately involved in some of the nation’s most historic, high-stakes cases. The team includes certified public accountants, certified fraud examiners and insolvency professionals, amongst others.

 
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Investment Banking

The breadth of resources at FTI Consulting enables us to pair industry expertise with investment banking and transaction execution expertise when such specialised expertise is critical to a transaction’s outcome. Our unique capabilities allow us a competitive edge to understand and to convey to potential buyers, sellers and financing sources a company’s key business drivers.

 
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Restructuring

With our team’s in-depth, industry-specific operational experience and world-class financial expertise, FTI Consulting has led the restructuring league tables for many years. We have a highly respected track record of stabilising overleveraged companies, resolving balance sheet issues, reassuring creditors, restructuring debt and providing interim management.

FTI Consulting is well-known for mobilising the specialised, highly experienced services needed for each unique situation. Our restructuring team helps clients improve liquidity, conserve cash and manage working capital with services that include:
  • Contingency planning
  • Stakeholder negotiation
  • Divestiture analysis
  • Debtor-in-possession and exit financing options

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    Carlyn Taylor Senior Managing Director, Leader of Industry Initiatives
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