The ongoing deregulation of local telecommunications, together with the restructuring of major carriers, has resulted in structural, economic, and managerial changes affecting both providers and consumers. As always, change begets opportunities:

Opportunities for communications users to enjoy increased capabilities with enhanced services while reducing costs.

Opportunities for new carriers to enter the competitive telecommunications industry, thereby encouraging further innovation.

Opportunities for manufacturers to supply products to these new carriers, the Bell Operating Companies, independent telephone companies, and end user organizations.

Federal Engineering is uniquely positioned to provide those planning functions that are so sorely needed in this era of deregulation. Because our analyses are based on hundreds of man-years of operational experience, FE is often the catalyst that moves a project from the planning phase through implementation, and into the operational phase.

FE's market research and strategic planning services consistently hit the mark, in large part because of the knowledge gained via our complementary implementation service offerings. For example, our telecommunications planning and design programs afford us an extraordinary view of large scale, integrated, multi-user, multi-application, multi-vendor networks. We are clearly sensitive to the true needs of the end user because we regularly manage large scale equipment and service procurements. FE's unparalleled insights are continually refreshed via our seminars, which keep us in constant contact with a multitude of communications personnel. From this vantage point, we are able to see past the industry hyperbole and identify those services and product features that are in real demand today, as well as to accurately predict the price elasticity of the market.