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Telecom Transactions and Network-Related Agreements
We are zealous advocates for purchasers of telecommunications and network-related services. The work for which we are best known is negotiating telecom service agreements for enterprise customers, including over half of the Fortune 100. In partnership with our consulting affiliate, TechCaliber Consulting (TC2), we provide clients with the legal and financial expertise they need to construct cutting-edge telecom service contracts, starting with RFP preparation and continuing through contract execution, implementation, and compliance.
LB3 is unrivaled in negotiating custom network service agreements, telecommunications outsourcings, and other complex network transactions including those for wireless services, Internet-related services (such as VoIP and IP-VPNs), network management, dark fiber, and satellite services.
Our experience includes:
- Representing many of the nation's largest enterprise customers in the negotiation of their agreements for a wide range of services, including
- voice and data services with interexchange carriers such as AT&T, MCI, Sprint and Verizon (acting in its capacity as an IXC);
- local services agreements with local exchange carriers such as Verizon and BellSouth, as well as CLECs and (occasionally) cable operators; and
- wireless voice and data services with all of the major wireless carriers.
- Assisting enterprise customers in dealing with the new megacarriers: AT&T (AT&T IXC, SBC and Bell South), Verizon and Sprint by developing new contracting strategies and contract documents.
- Representing the City of New York in the negotiation of path breaking local service agreements with Verizon and at&t.
- Representing enterprise customers in agreements for outsourcing telecommunications and related services.
- Assisting organizations in the insurance, health care, hospitality, and retail sectors in the negotiation of consortium purchases under which participants pool their buying power in local, long distance, and Internet services.
- Negotiating and arbitrating interconnection arrangements with interexchange and incumbent local exchange carriers on behalf of competitive providers of — local telecommunications.
Our expertise in information technology, application development, implementation and maintenance and e-Business extends through and beyond contract development and negotiation. Using our understanding of the technology that drives business, we work with our colleagues at TC2 to help clients navigate through the procurement process --developing RFPs, Statements of Work and Service Level Agreements, evaluating and negotiating vendor responses to them, benchmarking pricing proposals, and turning attractive offers into solid agreements.
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