Telecommunications

American Appraisal has helped its telecommunications industry clients face competitive, regulatory and technological challenges and opportunities for decades.

Who We Serve
American Appraisal serves clients in a broad array of industry segments including: 

• Narrow and broadband service providers for business and residential services
• Traditional wireline, wireless, cable and satellite network operators
• Fiber optic, copper and coaxial cable, and connectivity product manufacturers
• Equipment manufacturers
• Network and data center operators
• Outsourced telecom services

What We Do
We deliver our telecommunications valuation expertise through professionals who specialize in various types of tangible and intangible assets. In addition to significant experience with all types of real and personal property assets, our intangible assets experience includes:

Some of the specialized property types we have valued include:

American Appraisal assists with:

• Fair value opinions for business combinations and impairment measurement (US GAAP and IFRS)
• Fair market value opinions for regulatory and tax compliance
• Fair value and asset componentization consulting for IFRS adoption
• Transfer pricing
• Share option valuation
• Dispute resolution
• Fairness and solvency opinions
• Bankruptcies and reorganizations
• Fresh start accounting
• Asset-based financing
• Insurance placement and risk management
• Fixed asset inventory and reconciliation
• IT asset inventory
• Transaction consulting
• Real estate advisory
• Property tax valuations and negotiations

Recent Experience
American Appraisal’s recent telecommunications valuation and consulting experience includes:

• Quarterly equity valuations of the nation’s largest wireless network operator for ASC 718 compliance purposes
• Provided fair value analyses and consulting services to a large North American telecommunications company during its adoption and transition to IFRS
• Quarterly solvency opinions for a major ILEC related to its dividend and share repurchase programs

Why American Appraisal?
American Appraisal has provided valuation and consulting services to telecommunications companies involved in some of the industry’s largest transactions. Our telecommunications consultants have the extensive industry experience and regulatory knowledge required for independent, objective valuation and consulting services.