Long-haul flights can try the patience of the most seasoned travelers. When you finally disembark in your destination country, your focus is likely on collecting your baggage, clearing customs and arranging transport to a hotel so you can finally put your feet up. As you stand by the luggage carousel, you pull out your phone […]
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Most people know that international roaming can be expensive, but just how expensive can a phone bill get? In 2010 we found out as Canadians everywhere got caught up in hockey madness. On the final day of the Vancouver Olympic Games, the Canadian men defeated Team USA to win the gold medal as one man […]
I assume everyone is familiar with pooling at this point. Either you’re paying a certain amount for a block of minutes, megabytes or texts, from which each user on the account can draw from, or each user has an individual plan which gets combined to create a pool. Seems simple enough right? Then why is it unfair? Inability […]
We recently discussed ways to reduce your costs by pooling mobile plans with your organization. We’ve gather a few more tips to help guide you when moving your users to pooled mobile plans. Ensuring That Your Pool Size is Sufficient Another potential pitfall that you may encounter is ensuring that your pool is always larger […]
Enterprise mobile services eat up a lot of an organization’s telecom budget. For large companies, pooling your voice, text and data is the best way to manage your account, and drive down your expenses. How Mobile Pooling Works Pooling works in one of two ways. Either you’re paying a certain amount for a block of minutes, gigabytes […]
So you’ve been tasked with performing a telecom audit for your company. It can be done manually, which is long. tedious process. Based on our experience, we recommend that you use some sort of Telecom Expense Management software to help you create files that self-reconcile so that your audits aren’t static – that information gathered from one […]
We recently discussed what telecom and IT managers think about voice over IP. The consensus, no matter whether your opinion is that it’s a good thing or not, is that VoIP is here to stay. There are certainly many benefits of VoIP, including cost-savings on both long distance and move/add/change requests. But what are some […]
To date, it is difficult to get a comprehensive overall view of the benefits and disadvantages of VoIP. There are so many articles and studies published that give different, often conflicting, statistics about the rate of adoption and how VoIP is being used in many companies. What is the verdict on VoIP anyway? The […]
Over the past 10 years, we’ve witnessed a huge evolution in voice over IP. In the mid-00s, VoIP had telecom managers apprehensive, excited, and mystified all at once. In an Avema survey conducted around the same time, most telecom managers acknowledged that the evolution to VoIP is inevitable, but were not enthusiastic about this change. Most telecom […]
What would happen if your organization spends more than it should on telecom costs? As important as managing telecom costs is in a large corporation, it is under even more scrutiny in government organizations or public companies, where executives and directors are accountable to the larger public. One such example happened in the mid-00s. Major Canadian […]