The FTI Communications and Media practice has more experience in engagements involving telecommunications companies than virtually any other consulting firm in the business. Our experience and independent industry research uniquely enables us to assist telecom companies, investors and lenders by identifying strategies and operational improvements that create value.

We specialize in the assessment and resolution of financial and operational issues in all communication and media sectors, with particular focus in:

• Local exchange carriers (ILEC, CLEC and RLEC)
• Fiber transport and data networks
• Wireless carriers
• Long distance carriers
• Cable and media companies
• Internet access and hosting
• Telecom equipment
• Towers and infrastructure
• Undersea cable

We offer the following specialized services:

• Financial and economic analysis – FTI performs in-depth economic subscriber and customer-level analysis. We calculate profitability by subscriber, product line and distribution channel to determine whether margins are sufficient to cover customer acquisition costs with a positive NPV in a reasonable payback period. Our analysis allows telecom companies to improve operating efficiencies, reduce capital costs and preserve liquidity.
• Benchmarking – We have developed a proprietary communications and media company database with financial and operational metrics that, to the best of our knowledge, are unique in the industry. The benchmarking database has proved invaluable to clients’ critical strategic and tactical decision-making.
• Modeling – Our detailed financial and operational knowledge of the industry enables us to build complex yet flexible models that identify and sensitize key business drivers and allow management and other stakeholders to understand critical variables driving results
• Diverse capital structure experience – FTI has assisted boards of directors, equity holders, management, senior debt holders (banks and hedge funds) and suppliers to restructure balance sheets and to create new capital structures with various debt equity instruments