We collectively have over a century of experience representing corporate enterprise, carriers and others in telecommunications procurement, sourcing, lease and service agreements.
We have represented numerous Fortune 500 companies for large-scale purchases of voice, data, Internet access, and other telecommunications products and services including in the following areas:
- Enterprise Procurement.
- Outsourcing.
- Managed Services.
- Equipment Purchase/Lease.
- IP Telephony.
- Wireless.
- Cable.
- Internet.
- Broadband Access Agreements.
- Data Center Agreements.
- Enterprise sourcing contracts for voice, data, mobile, Internet and other corporate communications services.
- Drafting “SLAs” (Service Level Agreements) and other buyer protections when purchasing new technologies.
- Purchase, lease, collocation and system integration agreements for customer premises equipment such as routers, satellite earth stations, and local area networks.
- Data center agreements both domestically and internationally.
- Negotiation of high dollar/high volume telecommunications purchase agreements.
- Domestic and global, local and long distance, voice and data, frame relay, MPLS, IP VPN.
- Managed Services, virtual private networks.
- Broadband Internet access.
- Local service contracts with local exchange carriers.
- Ethernet local area network and wide area network.
- Equipment purchase and lease transactions.
- Negotiation of carrier wholesale agreements.
- Tariff and service guide preparation.
- Cable services: retail and wholesale.
- Interconnection and carrier-to-carrier access.
- Mobile, wireline, and cable.
- Broadband backbone and wholesale purchase agreements.
- Building access and overbuilds; shared tenant services.
- Network outsourcing and build-out; infrastructure sharing.
- Pole attachments; rights-of-way access.
- Fiber leasing; indefeasible rights-of-use; capacity “swaps.”
- Equipment collocation and “tele-hotels.”
- Satellite (earth station and space segment) and undersea cable.
- Equipment purchase/lease and vendor financing agreements.
- Negotiation of telecommunications equipment purchase/lease agreements, vendor financing and subordination agreements.
- Securing state regulatory approvals and related opinion practice for mergers, acquisitions and financing transactions involving regulated entities.
- Negotiating credit agreements and related loan documents for financing of entrants in both wireless and wireline telecommunications markets.