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 […]
Category: Cost Savings
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 […]
I had a meeting the other day with a carrier to go over their new “bundled plans” and I was amazed to see the thoroughly complex way these plans were being presented. To be fair, most of the plans are now including unlimited local minutes and quite surprisingly, unlimited SMS/MMS within Canada. That’s certainly a step in […]
Over the past few weeks, we’ve been discussing 10 rules to help reduce your mobile costs. In order to be successful, make educating your mobile users one of your top priorities. Rule #9 – Make User Education a Priority Policies and programs are useless unless people follow them. Publishing rules is not enough – […]
Avema’s CIO Roundtable Series On Tuesday, December 2nd, Avema Corporation hosted its first event in in its CIO Roundtable Series, focusing on the security risks of VoIP. The roundtable series is intended to provide IT executives with the opportunity to discuss and explore critical telecom and IT issues. Participants in the CIO Roundtable, which was […]
We’ve been discussing 10 rules to help reduce your mobile costs. You’d be surprised how often rule number seven gets overlooked. Rule #7 – Do a Comprehensive Mobile Inventory Wireless devices are small and tough to keep track of. Without conducting a regular mobile inventory, devices can accumulate or disappear, and in the […]
We’ve been discussing 10 rules to help reduce your mobile costs. Rule number six requires some serious negotiation skills. Rule #6 – Negotiate the Best Deal Consolidating the wireless spends puts companies in the driver’s seat at contract time. If you are new to buying corporate plans, welcome to the world where everything is negotiable. […]