This entry provides an overview of how enterprise customers shape the underlying business deals in telecommunications services agreements. In the previous entry, we discussed the primary objectives enterprise customers look to achieve in negotiating telecommunications services agreements. In our initial entry in this series, we discussed the challenge counsel for enterprise customers face in
Telecommunications Services Agreements
Telecommunications Services Agreements and the Four Corners Defense
By C. Douglas Jarrett on
Posted in Services Agreements

A guiding principle for attorneys and their clients when negotiating telecommunications services agreements is the four corners defense. No, not the end-of-game defensive strategy devised by the legendary Dean Smith for his UNC basketball team, but the straightforward strategy of keeping the terms and conditions of telecommunications services agreements within the four corners of an…