Given today's contentious environment, documentation and protection rank as key business factors for independent telecom providers.  Ensuring that your company's transactions are properly documented and your interests adequately protected are critical to your future.  JSI's Business Development staff has the experience and expertise to develop and customize all the agreements you need to define your transactions with affiliates, third-party providers, and end users.

Affiliates

ILECs must comply with FCC rules for accounting and affiliate transactions - e.g. documenting how costs are allocated for the provision of services to their affiliates.  For companies providing management, administrative, or billing and collection services to deregulated affiliates, JSI can customize your agreements to document the terms, conditions, and cost allocation methods that the regulated company uses to provide the services.  For companies with affiliates offering data, video, or toll services, JSI executes agreements governing the terms and conditions under which the affiliate provides billing and collection services to another affiliate(s) providing those services to customers.  To manage the sharing of facilities between affiliates, JSI can develop a lease agreement that prescribes maintenance and repair terms relating to leased services as well as fees and payment for switching capacity and/or fiber transport services for use in an affiliate's data, video, or voice services. 

Third-Party Providers and End Users

JSI also helps clients protect their businesses and limit liability by crafting agreements to govern transactions with third-party providers and end-user customers.  Agreements with clearly-stated provisions deliver solid protection in arms-length commercial transactions with third-party carriers for services, such as equipment leasing and fiber transport.  JSI's end-user agreements establish the terms and conditions for bundled services, as well as stand-alone data and video services.  Third party and end-user transaction and service agreements protect the carrier's interests by clarifying each party's responsibilities and preserving the carrier's rights and benefits.  With JSI's Business Services, independent providers can document their relationships with competitors through the use of formal transaction agreements, and have the assurance that they are complying with FCC rules when it comes to other companies and end-user customers. 

For more details about JSI's transaction agreement services, contact Terri Parrilla (tparrilla@jsitel.com) at 318-742-8708.