Built on 20 years of carrier experience. Built for your side of the table. Voice, network, security, and cloud sourced from 200+ providers, vendor-neutral — at no cost to you. Based in St. Louis, serving clients nationwide.
Billing errors, idle lines, and renewals nobody challenged — here's what it adds up to.
What We Source
Six categories, one process. We define the requirement, run competing bids across the providers that actually serve your address, and manage the winner through install — at no cost to you.
Cloud phone systems and team messaging, quoted side by side so you see real pricing before you commit.
Learn more →Ransomware protection, secure remote access, and compliance readiness — scoped to what you already run.
Learn more →Fiber, dedicated internet, and multi-site SD-WAN — including what's actually available at your address.
Learn more →Colocation, cloud infrastructure, backup, and disaster recovery matched to your uptime requirements.
Learn more →Omnichannel routing, AI voice agents, dialers, and workforce tools compared across competing contact center platforms.
Learn more →We audit your invoices, recover billing errors, and put controls in place so the overcharges stop.
Learn more →Why Gateway
Gateway Telecom Advisors was founded in St. Louis in the early 2000s by Rick Allman as Executive Technologies, supporting some of the region's largest enterprise customers on their PBX systems — Nortel, Avaya, Mitel, NEC, Toshiba — and the low-voltage infrastructure around them.
As the industry moved off premise hardware, the practice moved with it — from PBX into cloud voice and UCaaS, then business internet and SD-WAN, cybersecurity and SASE, contact center, cloud and data center, and telecom expense management. Today Gateway brings that full portfolio to your side of the table: vendor-neutral, with master-agency access to 200+ providers and zero quota bias.
Carrier-side training and credentials, applied with client-side incentives.
Recommendations track to your goals — not a rep's number.
Two to three competing proposals with transparent pricing and SLAs.
Gateway stays through implementation, escalations, true-ups, and renewals.
Gateway works with small and mid-market companies nationwide — from single-office professional firms to multi-site operators spread across states. Our deepest roots are in the St. Louis metro: we know which carriers actually have fiber in which buildings, and how long each one really takes to deliver a circuit.
That local knowledge matters more than it sounds. Availability for business internet in St. Louis changes block by block. A provider that can light up a suite in Maryland Heights next month may need a year to reach a building in Fenton, and no national comparison site will tell you that. We check what is actually serviceable at your address before we bring you a single quote.
Most of our work covers business phone systems and UCaaS, business internet and SD-WAN, cybersecurity and SASE, and telecom bill audits. Every engagement is sourced across 200+ providers, and the provider you select pays us — so our advisory work costs you nothing.
Industries We Know
Plant connectivity, multi-site WAN, OT/IT segmentation, and contact center for inside sales.
Manufacturing →Compliance-aware voice, recording, encrypted connectivity for regulated workflows.
Financial services →HIPAA-aligned communications, secure clinic-to-clinic networking, and clinician mobility.
Healthcare →Standardized broadband and SD-WAN across locations, POS uptime, centralized voice.
Multi-site retail →Hybrid-ready voice, mobile-first collaboration, and lean security for distributed teams.
Professional services →Common questions
Straight answers about how a telecom broker works, what it costs, and where we fit.
We are an independent telecom and cloud broker. We define what your business needs, run a competitive selection across more than 200 providers, negotiate the contract, and manage the provider you choose through delivery. We are not a carrier and we do not resell one brand.
Nothing. We are compensated by the provider you select once a contract is signed, so our advisory work carries no fee to you.
A carrier representative can only sell you their own portfolio, so every recommendation points to one answer. We are vendor-neutral, which means we put your requirement out to competing providers and compare the results side by side. You see the market instead of one slice of it.
More than 200, through our partnership with Intelisys. That includes the national carriers, regional fiber providers, UCaaS and CCaaS platforms, and managed security vendors. The full list is on our providers page.
No. The provider you select performs the site survey, installation, and cutover. Our role is selection, negotiation, and managing that provider so the project stays on track and someone answers when there is a problem.
Cloud phone systems and UCaaS, contact center (CCaaS), SD-WAN, SASE, dedicated internet access and broadband, managed cybersecurity, cloud and colocation with backup and disaster recovery, and telecom expense management.
We are based in St. Louis and know the local carrier landscape well, but we support clients nationwide, including businesses with locations across multiple states.
Provider count and service information reviewed and updated .
One call is enough to know whether Gateway can help. Bring a current bill or a renewal date — we'll do the rest.
Book a CallTell us what you're running and we'll bring competing bids from 200+ providers — at no cost to you.
No cost, no obligation. Gateway Telecom Advisors is paid by the provider you select.