Most companies receive several calls a month, or even a week, from phone companies and vendors looking to sell better rates or new technology.
If your company is like most, you already are familiar with how to reduce your telecommunications cost per minute and circuit costs, which are the common telecom measures of expense. But outside of these surface costs, there is a hidden area of savings that requires digging a little deeper to review your telecom design.
To review your telecom design, you don't need to be a network engineer, you just need to have some basic information. Obviously the size of the company, number of locations, amount of international business and etc. all play a part in the telecommunications usage.
What you might overlook is that in a typical business office, there are peak times of calling. First thing in the morning, before lunch, after lunch and the end of the day are examples of typical peak calling times.
To review your telecom design, write down the total number of employees for your location, total number of phone lines used for voice services and total number of minutes on your local and long distance phone bill. If you have 10 employees and 30 phone lines, you found savings.
In a small office of less than 10 people, it is often necessary to have a 1 to 1 ratio of lines to employees, but the math changes for larger offices.
How does this save you money? If you have 15 phone lines that are unnecessary, you could be overspending anywhere from $20 to $50 a line per month, or $3,600 to $9,000 a year.
If you have 45 plain old telephone service lines that you are paying $30 for per line, or $1,350 total, you could save money by installing a T1.5 circuit with 24 channels for $450 total and reduce your plain old telephone service lines to 10, or $300. The savings would be $9,000 a year.
The phone company is never going to call and tell you that you have too many lines. For more information, call (760) 438-8833 or visit www.4telecomhelp.com.
If your company is like most, you already are familiar with how to reduce your telecommunications cost per minute and circuit costs, which are the common telecom measures of expense. But outside of these surface costs, there is a hidden area of savings that requires digging a little deeper to review your telecom design.
To review your telecom design, you don't need to be a network engineer, you just need to have some basic information. Obviously the size of the company, number of locations, amount of international business and etc. all play a part in the telecommunications usage.
What you might overlook is that in a typical business office, there are peak times of calling. First thing in the morning, before lunch, after lunch and the end of the day are examples of typical peak calling times.
To review your telecom design, write down the total number of employees for your location, total number of phone lines used for voice services and total number of minutes on your local and long distance phone bill. If you have 10 employees and 30 phone lines, you found savings.
In a small office of less than 10 people, it is often necessary to have a 1 to 1 ratio of lines to employees, but the math changes for larger offices.
How does this save you money? If you have 15 phone lines that are unnecessary, you could be overspending anywhere from $20 to $50 a line per month, or $3,600 to $9,000 a year.
If you have 45 plain old telephone service lines that you are paying $30 for per line, or $1,350 total, you could save money by installing a T1.5 circuit with 24 channels for $450 total and reduce your plain old telephone service lines to 10, or $300. The savings would be $9,000 a year.
The phone company is never going to call and tell you that you have too many lines. For more information, call (760) 438-8833 or visit www.4telecomhelp.com.