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Broadband Consulting
Advances in communications offer major benefits in utility operations, revenues, and customer service. To make the right decisions about everything from fiber to power line communications, turn to public power’s telecom consultant and advisor.
Turnkey Business Case Analysis and Implementation
Telecommunications in public power is going through a tremendous transformation. New technologies, new applications, a new energy economy, and changing customer and regulatory expectations are coming together to make public power’s decisions in communications infrastructure absolutely critical. How do you handicap the winners and losers of telecom technologies? What telecom solutions make the most sense for your utility and your community? Where should you invest…for today and tomorrow?
Uptown Services brings unequaled expertise and experience to helping public power utilities assess, plan, and execute telecommunications options that will best serve the utility and the community. Uptown Services has worked with more than 40 public power utilities on a variety of critical telecommunications issues. Its turnkey business case analysis will ensure that your decisions about adding to or modifying your telecommunications infrastructure are made with the best information available, optimizing your return on investment and strengthening your customer satisfaction.
Whether you are exploring retail broadband services or looking for the best communications technology to power utility applications such as SCADA, AMI, or any number of emerging Smart Grid applications, Uptown Services can help you evaluate your best options.
Public Power Focus
Uptown Services delivers feasibility studies, product planning, competitive assessments, technology assessments, and financial analysis services designed exclusively for the municipal utility sector. This public power focus sets Uptown Services far apart from other consulting firms.
Industry Experience & Implementation Results
The principals of Uptown Services bring over 45 years of combined experience as former managers with large telecommunications and cable TV operators. This practical experience can help you navigate both the strategic as well as operational decisions that come with changing your telecom infrastructure or offering new retail services.
Uptown Services has assisted several public power clients with the implementation of their broadband system. This experience ensures favorable vendor pricing, faster time-to-market, and predictable market share results.
Why Uptown Services?
Uptown offers hands-on experience across all aspects of the municipal broadband industry:
--Experience with private sector cable, telephone, and Internet incumbent operators
--Completion of 18 comprehensive market research studies within the municipal broadband sector in the last 4 years
--Experience with over 30 broadband feasibility studies for municipal clients
--Actual experience as the implementation consultant for 6 municipal broadband deployments
Uptown’s marketing, operations, technical, and financial services capabilities include:
--Assessing broadband technology alternatives
--Conducting telephone market research surveys to test consumer interest in a new service
--Evaluating the service offerings, technologies, customer satisfaction, and pricing of competitors
--Analyzing AMI/AMR needs
--Creating specific marketing plans and budgets
--Receiving vendor bids via RFPs
--Negotiating service provider contracts and terms
--Generating actual construction costs and bill of materials
--Basing business cases on the drivers of demand, revenue, expense, and capital expenditures
--Analyzing actual subscriber and financial results
APPA Members Talk About Uptown Services
“Uptown has proven to be extremely valuable as Tullahoma Utilities Board enters the competitive Internet, television, and phone markets. Their experience and knowledge of managing FTTP implementations saved TUB money and headaches during this phase. They do a great job of filling in the gaps that most utilities, like us, will have in the process.”
--Brian Skelton, General Manager, Tullahoma Utilities Board, TN
“"The City of Dover is extremely pleased with the services provided by Uptown Services. The data received through the survey process was compiled in a totally unbiased nature, providing the true picture of what our residents desire in the area of broadband telecommunications. Any APPA member will be taking a step in the right direction when using Uptown to guide them through the initial stages of developing a system that will be tailored to their community's needs."
--Richard P. Homrighausen, Mayor, City of Dover, Ohio
Best Advice in the Business
Contact your Hometown Connections representative and ask about the 20% discount for APPA members on consulting services from Uptown. Then base your telecom decisions on public power business models that make sense.
Visit the Uptown Services Web site for more information.
• Uptown Services, LLC
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