THE O'BRIEN GROUP, INC.
10 Milk Street, 7th Floor
Boston, MA 02108
Telephone: 617 737-2255 FAX: 617 737-3399

The O'Brien Group, Inc. is a privately-held telecommunications investment and consulting firm.

The company was formed by Paul C. O'Brien, after his retirement from NYNEX (now Verizon Communications) as Chairman, President and CEO of New England Telephone, the largest regulated utility providing local telephone service in the five New England states.

The O'Brien Group utilizes the latest communications technologies to coordinate and manage services of affiliates, associates, other consulting firms and independent professionals, as may be required, to meet fully and efficently a client's business needs anywhere in the world.

Through its extensive network of seasoned professionals, many of whom are former NYNEX executives, the company has at its disposal some of the most talented and battle-proven managers in the business. By its strategic relationships with leading-edge vendors and providers, The O'Brien Group offers a client a complete solution. Collectively, The O'Brien Group provides its clients with a broad array of telecommunications, information technology, governance, regulatory and financial skill-sets needed to achieve an intended result.

The O'Brien Group has been engaged by clients worldwide, often on a very discrete and confidential basis. The Company formed an investment partnership that acquired a controlling interest in a publicly-traded telecommunications firm specializing in broadband applications. It participated in a U.S.-based consortium to design, develop and construct regional Internet network access provisioning in the Middle East and played a pivotal role in telecommunications privatization in Kuwait and Egypt. It has extensive experience in China with wireless, broadband and voice services, having facilitated interconnection and settlement agreements for an international carrier. It has also provided services to clients in the UK, France, Australia, South Africa and South America.

On the domestic front, The O'Brien Group's client list includes a power utility in the Northeast needing strategic and business planning services to create an unregulated subsidiary to compete with incumbent telecommunications carriers. A Southern state legislature needing a comprehensive telecommunications and cable regulatory plan to address issues of new communications technology. Numerous IT start-ups seeking executive advisory services. The company has been involved with a New York-based Real Estate Consortium developing connectivity facilities for CLECs, ISPs and application services providers in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic states. It also maintains a close relationship with OEMs, such as Lucent, Nortel, NEC and Cabletron and service providers like Verizon, Cable & Wireless and SBC, now AT&T. The company is also affiliated with numerous other consulting firms.

The O'Brien Group operates its own venture capital fund for start-up companies involved in telecommunications and high technology.

To contact us directly, please call or fax the numbers listed above , or better yet, E-Mail Mrs. T. Jeanette Fagan for immediate personal attention.