Consulting Services

ICT Development

The widespread availability of a range of complementary Information and Communication Technology (ICT) services has long been acknowledged as a key enabling factor to successful economic development. ICT-connected businesses enjoy considerable opportunities for increased efficiency of operation and for marketing their products to an ever-wider audience, whilst access to comparable services facilitates increased buying choice on the part of consumers, as well as providing educational opportunities for them to increasing their earning (and spending) powers.

Boosting the availability of advanced ICT services - particularly the provision of broadband to business and residential end users over the copper loop using Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) technologies – is an increasingly common element of regional development and regeneration strategies, but one which can find itself falling at the first hurdle if infrastructural or competitive conditions are not right. InterConnect Communications can assist development bodies with policy formulation to maximise the impact of existing resources, or with the creation of new infrastructure to attract inward investment.

Often, ICT services underpinning local and regional development initiatives are delivered through the provision of Open Access Networks (OANs) , be they publicly or privately funded. InterConnect can advise development agencies and commercial operators on the design and planning of OANs to meet regulatory and functional requirements, and provide expert project management support for the planning and implementation of new networks.

InterConnect Communications has extensive experience in the design, development and implementation of ICT networks, for both public and private sector players. Our regulatory expertise covering all aspects of ICT activity is of international scope and reputation, whilst strong working linkages with leading specialists in economic regeneration allow us to offer an end-to-end service covering all aspects of regional regeneration policies and strategies.

For developing countries or those with outlying communities in sparsely-populated rural regions or areas of difficult terrain, a more immediate priority may be ensuring that everyone enjoys access to affordable core ICT services, regardless of location or socio-economic grouping. The development of suitable Universal and Rural Service schemes provides an effective regulatory means of ensuring a minimum level of guaranteed service consistent with preventing social exclusion, promoting regional development, and providing the means of basic communication for all citizens. InterConnect can help quantify the likely costs of service provision and suggest suitable budgetary and funding mechanisms, advise on the organisational structures needed to administer and monitor universal service activities, and support the implementation process through the development of formal guidelines and procedures.

Key Service Areas:

ICT Development

More Information?

For more information about InterConnect's ICT Development services, please contact Eric Tyson by phone on +44 (0) 1291 638400.