Expertise

Telecommunications

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Through direct contact with the Federal Communications Commission, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, the Federal Trade Commission, and our ties to private sector telecommunications companies and large systems integrators, our team has an in-depth understanding and the communication and media industries contacts to be successful.  GAGE International’s telecommunications practice includes:

• A former senior member of the Senate Commerce Committee and Chairman of the Telecommunications Subcommittee.
• The author of section 706 of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, the “Digital Dozen” proposal for telecom legislation, the “Tech 7” agenda aimed to bring greater security to the Internet, the “NexGenTenâ€? and the “e-Eleven” effort to strengthen security and usher reform for 21st century communication
• The founder of the Northern Ag Network, which grew to serve 31 radio and TV stations across parts of the Western United States
• A former executive from SBC Communications, a Fortune 30 company and leading provider of high-speed DSL Internet Access services
• A former co-Chairman of the Internet Caucus

We are committed to our client’s goals and work closely with them to develop and implement a strategy to meet their needs.

Our Successes

• Identified and included a number of GAGE clients into teaming agreements for the Networx Contract, a $43 billion GSA telecommunications contract recently awarded to Verizon, AT&T and Qwest.
• Included a number of client’s legislative language in a bills that have passed both houses of Congress and were ultimately signed into law by the President
• Facilitated the awarding of the Networx Contract to Verizon
• Secured meetings with the Chairman of the FCC to discuss pending Agency action.
• Ensured our client’s legislative solutions to the funding of the Universal Service Fund was the centerpiece of roundtable discussions with key senators and industry peers.
• Assisted in the development and implementation of a plan to ensure the Federal Communications Commission awarded spectrum for use in a wireless communications network. The awarded spectrum was valued at over $2 billion.
• Secured federal funding for an advanced 9-1-1 communications system.
• Supported our client’s efforts against competing bids to successfully complete the acquisition of telecommunications assets in a multi-state transaction.
• Provided key strategic and political support behind one company’s successful efforts to reorganize critical spectrum.
• Ensured our client’s legislative solutions to the funding of the Universal Service Fund was the centerpiece of roundtable discussions with key senators and industry peers.
• Engineered a Congressional hearing to expose one client’s unfair treatment by a quasi-government agency. Those efforts contributed in producing an agreement favorable for our client.
• Secured our client’s seat on the Board of Directors of the nation’s largest non-profit advocacy group for emergency communications
• Orchestrated a Congressional Letter from key Senators to the Federal Communications Commission on behalf of the United State’s largest Internet Telephony provider.
• Secured the testimony by the country’s largest 9-1-1 network provider in a Senate Commerce Committee Hearing on next generation 9-1-1 services.