Background

Telco Planning is the rebirth of a successful consulting group operating from 1990 to 2000.  Telco Planning personnel are pioneers in public communications network engineering, operations, business modeling, deployment and now market development.  Early on Telco Planning was at the forefront of Intelligent Network Signaling with many CTI Prototypes for operator workstations and voice messaging, Number Portability, Bill Number Screening and SS7 Initial Address Message implementations.  The early work also lead personnel through significant network billing and numbering plan issues.  The early Telco Planning consultants focused on technology and the operational support systems to support the new technologies.  This lead to significant patents, FCC and State rulings and new standards published. 

Most of Telco Planning's early efforts were directly the results of participating in many committees of the Exchange Carrier Standards Association (ECSA), now named Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Standards (ATIS).  Consultants are or have been invited authors of Bellcore/Telcordia, COMPTEL, USTA, ATM Forum, FCC task forces, State Governors Task Force and many other professional organizations.

In the mid 1990s as Competitive Access Providers added switches and new types of customers Telco Planning personnel we instrumental in advising network operators.  In addition, Telco Planning consultants advised many law offices and investment firms on the viability of their investments. Just before the dot com bust imploding the telco networks (and some telecom companies overstating their results) Telco Planning closed to work for others.  Loosing the head ache of operating the business and a  suspicion that network operators were not making their numbers, the investors would pull out. 

Now, Telco Planning is back with deep fiber optic network solutions with unique skills in development of GigaBit, Wireless and Passive Optical Network (PON) network elements.  Several of the consultants have worked in the R&D efforts of these technologies including the Element and Network Management System creation.  

Telco Planning is a consultancy in the true word. As in the past, there are professional hourly rates.  Telco Planning consultants are not contract workers.  Telco Planning consultants meet the needs of network operator executives who need strategic advice on new technologies, deployments or implementations.  Telco Planning consultants can lay out models for deployment, evaluations of strategies, revenue and expense for deployment and operations.  

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