Industries · Telco

Radio, connectivity, satellite — and the P&L.

Networks are capital-heavy, long-lived, and unforgiving of a wrong turn. The decisions worth getting right sit where engineering constraint meets commercial reality.

What we keep seeing.

Operator economics have tightened as networks stay capital-hungry while much of the revenue growth has flattened. The technologies meant to open new revenue have largely arrived — but few have monetised on the timeline the original business case assumed.

Meanwhile the shape of the market keeps moving. Direct-to-device satellite is changing what coverage costs and what it is worth. Wholesale and retail pull in different directions inside the same balance sheet. Network APIs promise a new revenue layer that only pays if someone builds propositions on it. And underneath all of it sit unglamorous dependencies — timing, sync, transport — that quietly constrain what the commercial team can sell.

The questions that bite.

Which parts of the portfolio still earn their capital?
What does satellite actually change for our coverage economics?
Where does the network stop being a cost and start being a product?
What do we retire, and in what order?

Where we help.

Mapped to the lifecycle — the same four services, read through the grain of this sector.

01 — Strategise
Portfolio direction
Which segments and which layers of the stack the business should be competing in, and what that means for the next investment cycle.
02 — Commercialise
Propositions that sell
Turning network capability into something a segment will actually buy — priced, packaged, and supportable.
03 — Rationalise
Legacy, sequenced
Copper, legacy mobile generations, and platforms past their useful life — retired in an order that protects revenue and customers.
All four services

The length of the stack.

Silicon to satellite, with AI moving between every layer. The range is what lets a conversation move from the proposition sold at the top to the component that constrains it at the bottom, without changing rooms.

Two ways through the door.

Step 01 · Start here

A coffee catch-up.

An unhurried conversation — in person in Auckland, or over a call. We talk through the decision you’re weighing, how we’d work together, and whether there’s a fit. No scope to sign, no slides to sit through.

30 minutes · no obligation
Step 02 · When it’s a fit

The Alignment Discovery.

A two-week joint undertaking, built around the specific decision you’re weighing. No pre-packaged verdict, no off-the-shelf framework — we work the problem with your leadership team, map the dependencies, name the standoffs, and sequence the path forward.

2 weeks · fixed scope
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These four are where our pattern library runs deepest — not the limit of where we work. Where the decision is portfolio strategy and execution, the discipline travels. How far the range runs

Engagements start with a coffee, not a contract.

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