PROFESSIONAL SERVICES BUSINESS UNIT

The Professional Services Business Unit specializes in the following areas:

1. Regulatory policy and framework

• Status of the Telecommunications Service Regulator
• Licensing and Fees
• Radio Frequency Spectrum Licensing and Fees
• Universal Service & Funding Mechanism
• Rate Rebalancing
• National Numbering Plan and Usage Fees and Number portability
• Dispute Resolution and Industry Fora
• Interconnection and Special Access including Equipment Collocation and Cost Calculation Methodology
• Cost recovery mechanism for an incumbent carrier for network modernization, undertaken in order to facilitate interconnection, number portability, etc.
• Emergency service, directory assistance, operator services and other consumer services providing in a competitive environment
• Standardization, Equipment Certification and Conformance Procedures
• Network Reliability, Interoperability and Compatibility
• Carrier pre-selection, consumer protection and consumer education regarding carrier choice

• Market Evaluation & Sizing
• Business Analysis & Performance Measurement
• Transforming operators from technology-oriented to market-oriented companies, Business Transformation & Change Management
• Business case and Roadmap development for investment-related activities, such as new services and products development, acquisition, and new market entry. Implementation support services
• Preparing government-owned incumbent telecommunications operators for privatization by increasing their value

CIG believes an operator's value exists in its capability to produce and sell services profitably. To aid its clients in achieving this goal, CIG comprehensively analyses the service portfolio, the supportive network infrastructure and the OSS capability. Based on this analysis, CIG develops a computerized model, which allows company value to be modeled as a function of different parameters. From this analysis, recommendations are then developed to prioritize an action plan to maximize carrier value.

• Network Audits & Technology Evaluation
• Development of the transition strategy from today's circuit-based connectivity to a converged, packet-based network
• Next Generation Network planning (Voice, Data and Video over IP, network design, vendors and equipment selection, including soft-switches and the appropriate gateways)
• Complex integration of NGN products from different companies.
• Operations Support Systems analysis & design including Network Management
• Interconnection plans and agreements
• Collocation agreements
• Project management

CIG's extensive experience in NGN technologies ensures that the customer is provided with the broadest possible knowledge of available technology in today's market, and the knowledge to select and integrate the best possible network solutions.

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