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If you’re a telco, telco corporate customer, or supplier to telcos, give us a call. We’ve worked on a wide range of projects, contracts and disputes in the telco space – covering regulatory issues to transactional commercial deals.
For example, recently we implemented the contract framework and terms for a $100M network rollout for a start-up telco that is a successful key player in the New Zealand market. We’ve advised everyone in the industry from contractors to businesses, and our experience has helped shape the telecommunications regulatory landscape.
Our rare blend of wider telecommunications experience with regulatory aspects and a background in litigation enables us to stitch together innovative solutions for our clients that can provide real value. This innovative approach, for example, produced two wins for our clients in the last 12 months – around $20M in each case.
Chambers and Partners, the highly regarded 2012 directory of leading lawyers, notes that Wigley + Company “is admired by the wider legal community for its comprehensive abilities in the telecoms regulatory arena. Sources say: ‘A very entrepreneurial, specialist take on telecoms regulatory projects’.”
With our regulatory, legal and commercial knowledge, we can get up to speed with your objectives and issues to quickly identify legal options and solutions that can deliver value and give you an edge.
Examples of work
- Central role in designing and negotiating the main contracts for the implementation of a high capacity fibre network in New Zealand.
- Assisted with the launch of a major mobile network by drafting and negotiating agreements for a number of business critical core system implementations.
- Advised a large city council in its negotiations and contractual drafting for enterprise mobile services.
- Key advisers in the implementation of unified communications for a national organisation.
- Advised in the review and preparation of a comprehensive MSA for the current expansion and support of a major mobile network in New Zealand.
- Instrumental in a large organisation reducing early termination charges, payable to a telco, by $1.3M.
- Lead role in the operational separation of telco incumbent and its separation undertakings.
- Advice on numerous issues arising out of structural separation of telco incumbent.
- Judicial review of a telecommunications regulator’s decision on bitstream pricing.
- Claims against telco incumbents leading to substantial payments to clients.
- Market reviews under the EU model.