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Telecom Expense Management Evolves

By: Chris Gill

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Telecom expense management never stands still. It's grown from a management system designed to reduce costs for basic land and mobile voice services to an all-encompassing strategy that covers complex combinations of services and responds to a transforming market. According to telecom expense Management Company GILL Technologies the second decade of the 21st century promises to add new dimensions to telecom auditing, management, upgrades and procurement. These changes will come from three sources: new hardware, new services and changing carriers.

New hardware includes an entire range of devices that just didn't exist in previous years. The most prominent among them will be wireless tablets and net books operating under carrier subsidies. The iPad is the best known of these new devices, but virtually every major carrier and manufacturer in North American plans to cooperate over tablets with 3G or 4G internet access. Carriers have also begun selling microcell transmitters to create mobile “hot spots” in places with low quality coverage. And of course, as 4G networks spread across Canada and the USA and technology improves, companies will want to get new handsets that take advantage of them.

New services go hand in hand with advances in technology. Improved networks will change mobile data pricing, and make a number of services that are currently uncommon more mainstream. This includes video calls, multimedia messaging and an array of new services that rely on “the cloud” -- remote storage and synching. Companies will want to collaborate no matter where their employees happen to be.

Finally, new carriers will rise to take advantage of lower bandwidth prices, and existing carriers will change their contracts to add new services and adjust the pricing of existing ones. In Canada, an expanded wireless spectrum has given new carriers like WIND Mobile a foothold, and they've introduced new price structures to compete with the old major players in Canadian wireless telecom. In the USA, the market includes a wire variety of carriers who will add new packages as they compete for a share of the profits new and improved technologies have to offer.

From a telecom expense management perspective it will become even more important for companies to take a comprehensive approach to keeping their costs down while acquiring the services they need to stay competitive. This requires what GILL Technologies calls a “360 degree approach,” where professionals perform regular telecom bill audits and monitor the industry for new developments in technology, telecom services and carrier offers. Companies need agility: the ability to change handsets, carriers and services whenever it would improve their services' cost-effectiveness. Data collection is the most important part of the process. Telecom expense management professionals learn exactly how clients use their telecom services so that they can make the adjustments necessary to save money and ensure that business-critical functions stay reliable. This long term auditing and adjustment approach is often referred to as telecom lifecycle management because it goes far beyond making a single set of changes. Modern telecom expense management is a long term commitment where professionals apply constant adjustments, but which is far more rewarding to your bottom line than a more simplistic approach.

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GILL Technologies provides telecom expense management solutions through its mobile management service Tele-Watch.

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