Telecom Audit News & Resources

One of the greatest areas of cost savings for telecom audit company clients is the phone line inventory, which often results in the largest payback for the project. I.T. managers are often shocked to find that they’ve been paying for unused phone lines for years.

Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-West Virginia, said a one-year study by the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee shows about $2 billion a year in “mystery fees” show up on the landline phone bills of Americans, a problem known as cramming.

The Los Angeles city cell phone bill audit was conducted internally. What would the results have been had the audit been conducted by a professional telecom auditor?

Contract reconciliation-contracts continue to auto-renew at higher rates, telecom carriers continue to make mistakes by entering incorrect contract rates into telecom billing systems and we keep getting huge refunds for telecommunications audit clients. We estimate this issue to result in billions of dollars in lost expense to American business in 2011, as was the case in previous years.

Having an effective escalation technique is often the key to the golden kingdom, that is; the ability to get great refunds and savings from the telecom companies.

Sadly, on November 12, Google 411 service, a free directory assistance lookup service will discontinue operations. However, there are other options for free directory assistance…

The measure allows removal of cellular telephones, smartphones and similar wireless communications devices from application of the Internal Revenue Service (I.R.S.) “Listed Property” rules

“Prospective clients fax, email or mail us some sample telephone bills and we quickly give them a very good idea of the amount of savings they could receive from a full telecommunication audit. Most companies we check phone and data bills for see a 30 to 50 percent savings on their telecom expense right off the bat.”

The article offers great up-to-date-insight to I.T. managers regarding enterprise mobile management…

“The state is paying hundreds of thousands of dollars every month for phone lines that are not even being used,” said state comptroller Matthew Boxer. “Examples of government waste don’t get much clearer than that.”