Comgate Telemanagement Overview

• Comgate specializes in the provision of professional consulting services in telecommunications.
• Comgate Engineering Ltd. was founded in Ottawa in 1989. Comgate Telemanagement Ltd. extended the company’s practice into the United States in 1995.
• Comgate Telemanagement’s consulting services complement those of its sister engineering company by offering services in accounting, finance and engineering economics.
• Comgate Telemanagement also specializes in the provision of regulatory services related to telecommunications, including international jurisdictions.
• Comgate has developed activity based costing systems, economic evaluation studies, financial models of telecommunications operations, project feasibility studies and business planning related to many domestic and international initiatives.
• Comgate has undertaken a number of studies related to broadband and wireless implementations.

The Services We Provide

Regulatory Services

1. Expert Evidence and Testimony Before Regulatory Tribunals
2. Regulatory Costing Systems (Existing and New Services)
3. Interconnection, Co location and Inter Carrier Agreements
4. International Support to Regulatory Agencies
5. Regulatory Training

Accounting and Finance

1. Regulatory Accounting (FCC Uniform System of Accounts)
2. Regulatory Finance (Revenue Requirement, Rate of Return, Price Caps)
3. Financial Modeling and Analysis
4. Activity Based Cost Studies
5. Incremental Cost Studies

Engineering Economics

1. Capital Program Management Systems
2. Capital Recovery Methods
3. Economic Evaluation Studies

Network and Facilities Studies

1. Broadband Network Planning
2. Network Integration Feasibility Studies
3. Radiofrequency Magnetic Field Studies (FCC OET Bulletin 65, "Evaluating Compliance with FCC Guidelines for Human Exposure to Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields")
4. Trends in Communications Technologies and Services (wired and wireless)

Audit

1. Management Audits in Telecommunications
2. Regulatory Compliance Audits
3. Operations and Organizational Audits

Examples

For users of wide area data networks, a review of existing services and the leveraging of new services and new service suppliers, can offer opportunities to streamline business operations and reduce costs through the optimization of corporate networks.

Traditional telecommunications carriers and new entrants are leveraging new technologies to offer new services, and traditional services more cost effectively, by the optimization of carrier networks.