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 How Ernst & Young’s Transaction Advisory Services network can assist you
Telecommunications operators are facing a rapidly transforming business model. Competition from technology companies is creating fierce challenges over the ownership of customers and service innovation, and pricing pressures and network capacity are intensifying scrutiny on return on investment. Additionally, regulatory pressures and shareholder expectations require agility and cost efficiency. If you are facing these challenges, we can provide an industry-based perspective to addressing your assurance, advisory, transaction and tax needs.
Ernst & Young is the leading provider of professional services to the telecommunications sector. Our global telecoms Transaction Advisory Services (TAS) network provides deep industry insight and transactional capability, along with the resources to execute complex cross border transactions.
With the strength of our global TAS network, and an established track record of complex transactions, Ernst & Young can:
Assist you to understand your business needs in greater detail.
Identify opportunities for inorganic growth that fulfil your business objectives.
Introduce you to target stakeholders via our well established relationships.
Provide an end-to-end service offering across all of your transaction needs, with a single advisor providing efficiencies and allowing seamless continuity of service.
Execute a deal utilising our extensive experience in providing lead advisory and TAS services across fixed line and wireless operators
Our Global Telecommunications Center is a virtual hub that brings together people, cultures and leading ideas from across the world, to help you address your global, regional and local challenges. These may include next-generation services and product profitability, customer lifecycles and revenue assurance, working capital management, risk, regulatory strategies and compliance, potential cost reductions, mergers and acquisitions, financial and operational improvements, accounting and tax strategies. Whatever your need, we can help you improve the performance of your business.
Learn more about our approaches and services by visiting our website: www.ey.com/telecommunications
 Analysys Mason www.analysysmason.com is a global specialist in telecoms, media and technology (TMT). Our consultants work with clients across TMT sectors around the world and help shape their understanding of the future so they can thrive in demanding market conditions. We never forget that the point of consultancy is to make a tangible difference to our clients' businesses and as such we have developed rigorous methodologies that deliver real-world results. In terms of our research, many of the world's leading network operators, vendors, regulators and investors subscribe to our research programmes and rely on our insight to inform their decision making. Clients also have the opportunity to engage one-to-one with our subject-matter experts for tailored advice on critical business issues.
 At Herbert Smith Freehills we have unrivalled TMT sector expertise and extensive resources across the globe. Our teams have first-rate industry exposure to the most complex work, meaning we offer cutting-edge, useful and valuable solutions. Clients value our cross-practice approach matched with TMT sector specialists.
We are able to service our clients’ needs from hubs in Asia, Australia, Europe and the Middle East. Added to this we have a specific focus on emerging markets, including India and Africa, meaning we are able to provide a truly global perspective and service.
Our TMT teams are multi-award winning, ranked first in many areas including for client service. We provide the highest quality advice and consistent, seamless, committed and tailored service around the world.
Recent experience
Telefónica UK: advising on its ground breaking network sharing collaboration with Vodafone. A new 50/50 joint venture company was created through the consolidation of both Telefónica UK and Vodafone UK’s existing basic network infrastructure including towers and masts, which will be transferred to the joint venture or decommissioned over time
STV Group: advising on the successful settlement of its long-running dispute with ITV in the UK ending with agreement on the basis of a new working relationship going forward and on the suite of new Channel 3 networking arrangements
Cable & Wireless Worldwide: advising on its approx. £1 billion takeover by Vodafone including prior regulatory approvals in the EU and Singapore
BHP Billiton: advising on its business-critical 1SAP Program which is a key strategic initiative within BHP Billiton through which it will standardise its business processes globally and embed them into a single SAP system
AUSTAR: advising the largest subscription television operator in regional and rural Australia, on its A$2billion takeover by Foxtel. This involved a highly complex structure to effect the acquisition by means of a scheme of arrangement
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 We deliver strategic communications advice to many of the world’s leading businesses and financial institutions often during critical stages of their development.
We focus on the long term development of our clients' reputations and combine sector knowledge with a deep understanding of capital markets.
Our success is based on our commitment to enduring relationships with our clients, our staff, and the intermediaries that can impact an organisation's reputation.
Our excellent record of client and staff retention is based on the delivery of quality, senior advice, and our commitment to recruiting, retaining and rewarding the very best people.
We are an international company and are well known for our work in emerging markets. By combining our global capabilities with deep local knowledge, we develop innovative solutions to meet the diverse and ever-changing needs of our clients in some of the world's most exciting and dynamic economies.
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MEDIA PARTNERS
 TMT Finance is the leading news source for telecom investment and financing activity in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. The fortnightly email newsletter and portal (www.tmtfinance.com) consistently breaks news and acts as a record for of significant deals and strategic investment and advisory activity. Key areas include new advisory mandates; mergers and acquisitions; debt and equity capital markets, benchmarks for pricing, and strategic insight on international consolidation and partnerships. Read by senior telecom executives, investors, investment bankers and professional advisers globally. Sign up for free at http://www.tmtfinance.com/subscribe
 Africa Telecoms & IT magazine is Africa’s leading monthly ICT publication. It provides cutting edge coverage and analysis on developments in the Telecommunications and ICT sector in Africa. It provides features on the latest industry trends and prospects on leading manufacturers, network operators, business, markets, new products and services, the regulatory environment and investment opportunities in the fastest growing sector in Africa.
Africa Telecoms and IT Business is well respected for its excellent editorial and its resourcefulness as a source of reliable information and reference material for all ICT stakeholders in Africa.
Africa Telecom and IT magazine is distributed by controlled circulation worldwide and is read by the most important ICT decision makers who influence and determine the impact of ICT on the development of the African continent
 Created in 1988, InfoCom is a market research and consultancy company with 20 years experience in providing expert strategic planning assistance to stakeholders in the telecommunications, IT and multimedia industries.
Through customised consultancy services as well as multi-client products (Teleseeq product line) InfoCom’s clients benefit from the synergy between two spheres of activity — strategic studies and engineering. InfoCom’s activities span therefore financial, marketing, regulatory and technical aspects. InfoCom’s independent and fact-based perspective provides decision makers with an authoritative analysis of market dynamics, trends and opportunities in their key markets.
InfoCom’s Mission
To assist decision makers to create competitive advantages and improve their market position through the timely delivery of accurate and reliable market intelligence.
Facts and strengths
Entirely independent from any operator or manufacturer.
Extensive experience in IT and telecommunications market analysis
Leading edge content management system for market intelligence.
Multinational team speaking over ten different languages.
International offices
International partners
Our research agenda is an endless exercise in accuracy. Leveraging our body of knowledge from our own research, surveys and modelling, InfoCom analysts bring their experience and dedication to understand markets and how people relate to technology.
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