Data-Tel Communications Telecom Expense Management (TEM) Services
- Building real-time IT inventory (software)
- Gathering bills and identifying overcharges (audit)
- Searching for contract violations (support)
- Optimizing your telecom environment to save (support)
- Negotiating with vendors to get a better deal (support)
Telecom carriers are in business to make money, and can take more of it than they should, if you don’t negotiate your telecom pricing well. In telecom invoice audits, we’ve found that many invoices have some type of error. And if you’re not watching for them, you don’t see them.
Additionally, many carriers will raise your prices, without notice, when you contract expires. You can be paying two to three time the regular rate if these are not kept up on and renegotiated on a timely basis.
Data-Tel can help you with these issues by doing a variety of items that are often too confusing or time consuming for Property Managers or Property Management Companies. We can help by taking care of inventory management, invoice auditing, invoice payment, contract renegotiation, change of ownership, account and password recording, reporting and more.
Increase visibility. Streamline operations. Control costs.
Inventory Management: What is in your telecom environment? Our team manages your inventory for better transparency and resource control. Even in this day of wireless everything, we’d bet that every desk in your building still has a phone sitting on it. Imagine the potential cost savings of proactively managing that environment.
Telecom Invoice Auditing: Reviewing monthly invoices for errors and incorrect rates. It’s hard to find errors if you don’t know what you’re looking for. Increase visibility and savings by correctly identifying and requesting credits for errors.
Contract Negotiations: When your existing telecom service agreement expires, telecom companies will raise your rates without you knowing. We will manage the expiration dates and renegotiate the terms, before you rates raise. If agreements are currently expired, we will get them back under contract to save you money.
Change of Ownership: Whether you are acquiring a new property or selling one of your current assets, the telecom services need to be transferred. This would encompass all the change of ownership paperwork, billing updates and any changes that need to be made on the network. This is vital to make sure that all the services stay up and running and get moved to the appropriate owner for payment.
Optimization: Shut down the lines that are not being used or going mostly unused. This means we carefully monitor invoices and then contact carriers to resolve.
More Information: For more information on how Data-Tel can help you, reach out to us directly at support@data-tel.net and one of our experts will be happy to assist you.