What can I do to save money on my communications bill?

What can I do to save money on my communications bill?  It is a common question in all organizations in these times of financial crisis.

It is common to find organizations paying high rates for a long time because there were no in-depth studies to reduce costs is commonly coupled with the telephone companies that do not volunteer  help customers to save for the logical reason that doing so affects their interests.

Other times the fear of change prevents to try new technologies because they know the traditional technology that works stably.

In every company there are areas for improvement that can be discovered by investing time and gaining experience as an end result the same or better services at lower cost generally.

What can be done?

1.-Analyze current costs

a) Get a table of current costs per minute for local calls, long distance and cellular.

b) obtaining Internet access costs and voice and data links cost between locations.

2.- Search for phone companies alternatives

In these days of economic crisis phone companies are not willing to lose customers so that access to lower tariffs or improving plans under the threat it represents to them the plans of other telephone companies to win the customer generating very good suggestions.

It means that competition generates a benefit of the customer.

3.-Implementation of savings and control technologies

There are multiple technologies that can help companies in different ways the following are common examples of applications.

a) Systems of call quantifiers

In some companies phones are without restriction or control that causes excessive use of resources of employees personal calls by knowing that there is no control of this resource. By implementing a control system typically reduces consumption by 80%

b) Internet telephony systems

there are internet solutions (SIP) they are very reliable with good audio quality today used by several companies at very competitive prices generally lower than traditional telephony

c) Communication systems for internal calls between plants by extensions

e) Videoconferencing systems

f) Cell lines to regular phone systems

It is necessary to analyze the current costs, the savings rate to achieve necessary investments as investment rate of return etc. It takes a great experience and planning for successful change therefore becomes indispensable advice from an expert in the field.