Telecommunications Infrastructure, Competition, Regulation & Services

 

ACIL Tasman and its founding entities have a long history of undertaking analysis and providing advice on telecoms issues.. This includes reviewing the impacts of the technologies on the economy, market demand analysis, consumer benefits, infrastructure planning and servicing needs, and reviewing issues relating to competition, regulation and access.

Our history in this area has drawn on skills in economics, finance, strategy, modelling, demographics, statistics, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), engineering and public policy.


Our telecommunications experience covers the areas of:

• Economic and financial project evaluation
• Industry restructuring and reform
• Pricing and cost analysis
• Market entry strategies
• Advice on regulation and competition policy
• Demand forecasting and market assessments (including assessments of customer markets)
• Supply modelling and mapping,
• Infrastructure planning, including backhaul and local loop services.
• Telecommunications infrastructure planning
• Revenue projections
• Modelling of economic impacts of adoption of different telecom technologies
• Identification of areas of greatest unfulfilled demand for different telecom services

Our financial and economic modeling capabilities for the telecommunications sector include:

• financial modelling
• short, medium and long term forecasting of markets and economic activity
• general equilibrium modelling to assess the consumer benefits of telecoms improvements and the economic impact of major projects on local and regional communities and on the national economy
• spatial modelling, highlighting how variables such as economic value, supply, expenditure, demand, and unfulfilled demand vary across regions