Telecommunications
expert witness services

Often disputes involve the quantification of market scenarios ‘but-for’ the alleged actions. This may include matters of competition, regulation, abusive behaviour, anti-competitive behaviour, and so on.

Rarely do parties have exactly the same understanding of the amounts of the services consumed.  Often usage records have been lost by one or more parties. We have used our expertise and experience of similar situations to reach ranges of quantities consumed which are agreeable to both parties. Our experience enables us to know what’s important and quickly get to the facts of the matter.

Differences in interpretation and understanding of contractual clauses often gives rise to disputes. Interpretation of telecommunications pricing and commercial terms is particularly complex, often caused by original drafting which includes an implicit understanding of ‘the way things work’, or, by external changes, such as changes in regulation, that impact the commercial relationship. Our expert witnesses have provided their insights in numerous such situations.

In situations where the duration of a contract is open to interpretation, we have been engaged as telecommunications experts to provide an independent opinion on industry benchmark contract durations under similar circumstances.

We are often requested to produce benchmarks of industry norms. We have used our expertise to produce benchmarks using publicly available information, taking care to select examples that are comparable. In some cases, we have also been able to produce highly relevant and valuable benchmarks using a combination of public and non-public domain information. 

We frequently work with valuation experts (normally Chartered Accountants) to produce financial assessments to support claims for damages.

In our direct experience, it helps greatly if an expert witness is engaged as early as possible in the litigation process, ideally before the litigation itself has commenced.  In fact, in most of the cases in which we have been involved, we have been appointed prior to trial counsel.  

On numerous occasions, we have proven our ability to produce high quality, reasoned expert reports in very challenging timeframes.

As a client, if you don’t believe that the person you propose hiring as an expert genuinely knows and has real experience about their topic, don’t hire them.  

We are frequently required to condense thousands of pages of arguments, counter arguments, exhibits and witness statements to minutes of compelling testimony. Our expert witnesses are aware of this from the very start of the engagement.

If we don’t have the expertise in the particular area that you require, we will tell you. We may be able to help obtain the necessary skills and experience from elsewhere, for your consideration.