ETI's Clients span a broad range of stakeholders whose shared goal is the creation of robustly competitive telecommunications and energy marketplaces offering consumers the greatest array of choices at the lowest possible prices.  For purchasers of services furnished by incumbent telecommunications monopolies, this means cost-based prices that accurately track rapidly falling costs of telecommunications network components.  For services purchased from energy-distribution monopolies, this means securing cost-based prices that reflect the imposition of competitive market discipline.  For would-be competitors of the incumbent monopolies, this means open and nondiscriminatory access, at cost-based, efficient market rates, to all essential network resources, and effective safeguards against anti-competitive acts by the incumbents.  And for regulators and those charged with formulating and implementing public policy, this means just and reasonable, nondiscriminatory treatment of all stakeholders consistent with sound regulatory practice, administrative practicality, and statutory mandate.

Technical and economic expertise of ETI's professional consulting staff, augmented by the firm's other resources, are regularly sought by all of these interests:

• Major corporate and government purchasers of telecommunication and energy products and services

• State consumer advocacy agencies

• Competitive providers of local and long distance telecommunications services

• Energy service providers and other stakeholders who seek to enter the competitive energy market

• Foreign telecommunications providers considering entry into the U.S. market

• State and federal regulatory commissions

• Foreign regulatory agencies and stakeholders seeking to adapt U.S. public utility policy principles and practices to their domestic regulatory and market structures

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