Telecom Audit News & Resources

Wasted telecommunications expenses and overcharges can be found in organizations across the globe

Our telecom audit review studies shows that directory assistance fees continue to be astronomical, so using no cost directory assistance service is the way to go for most businesses.

Telecommunications Audit Professionals International (TAPI), an international Linked In telecom cost savings group initiated and managed by BottaBoom.com reached 400 active members this week!

Today, if a cell phone or smart phone is stolen, all is needed is another compatible simm card for that stolen phone to work.

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.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today proposed a total of $11.7 million in penalties against four companies that appear to have unlawfully billed tens of thousands of consumers for unauthorized charges – a practice known as “cramming.”

Protecting American consumers is one of my top priorities,” Chairman Rockefeller said. “My Committee will continue to investigate businesses that engage in unscrupulous practices that harm hardworking Americans and we will not stop until consumers are no longer subjected to them.”

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.

“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.”