Your industry's special needs are many, and often difficult to precisely pin down due to the tremendous amount and rate of change in the telecommunications industry. Our Telecommunications Industry Group has the experience, resources and network connections to help you meet the challenge of doing business in the modern business environment.

While others focus on traditional services problems, we pride ourselves on focusing on the future. In an industry that is itself defining the future, that can be a challenge. How do we do it? By listening to your needs and concerns, by working closely with you and your team, and by staying abreast of changes in the industry.

What are the business issues that are most important to your business today? This is the prime question we always concentrate on as the Telecommunications Industry Group of Shultz Huber & Associates, Inc.

Our Clients:

Our clients include ILECs, CLECs, IXC resellers, IXC retailers, ISPs, and cable television concerns. They include broadband resellers, cellular and PCS providers. They include hardware resellers, wiring contractors, and alarm services contractors. They include help desks, call centers and engineering services organizations. Telephone systems consultants, web authoring organizations and networking technicians are our clients as well.

Our clients include for-profit organizations as well as those organized as cooperatives. Our firm maintains the highest level of standards in conformity with the requirements of the Federal Communications Commission, State Public Utility Commission, the Rural Utilities Service and the Rural Telephone Finance Cooperative.

Our Experience:

Our experiences within the industry expand almost daily. Mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, substantial services expansions and capital market access are all examples of recent engagements on which we have worked with our clients. Human Resources, process redesign, capital budgeting, micro-economic modeling, competitive marketplace entry and participatative consulting are additional examples of our capabilities. Tariff consulting, corporate restructuring, organizational consulting and strategic planning help round out the list.

And, of course, we have experience in the traditional services of accounting, auditing, taxation and regulatory reporting services. Even in the traditional services area we work with the leading edge concerns of the industry on such topics as Internet connectivity and sales taxation, inter-state sales issues and multi-state organizational reporting issues and concerns.

All This From a Rural Based Firm?

How do we do this? By listening. In listening, we rapidly identify needs. We are then better able to respond to those needs. If your organization has needs that we do not currently have an expertise in, we turn to our network of professionals. With this expanded team, our resources extend into practically every arena. Our responsibility to our clients is to help them find solutions. If we cannot provide the solution within our Shultz Huber & Associates, Inc. resources, then we rely on these contacts from around North America to help you meet your needs.

We stay in touch with the industry on a regular basis by subscribing to and reading a number of industry specific mailings. We are active in the Ohio Telecommunications Industry Association and the National Telephone Cooperative Association. We speak regularly with legislators on issues of interest to the industry.