Telpro Management blog
Articles for finance, IT and procurement leaders at multi-site and enterprise companies on business telecom costs: carrier terms, contracts and renewals, bill audits, and how outside help is paid.
What Verizon's business Price Lock covers and what it leaves out
Verizon's business Price Lock holds the core plan price for three years, while taxes, fees, the Economic Adjustment Charge and add-ons sit outside it.
Wireless3 minute read
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Choosing who manages your company's telecom accounts
How an in-house team, telecom expense software and an outside firm split the work of audits, plan changes and carrier management, and how each one is paid.
Enterprise telecom management3 minute read
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Why telecom carriers aren't incentivized to lower your bill
Carriers earn more when a business buys more. Where that cost builds up on a large telecom account, and how to hire help whose fee depends on a lower bill.
Contracts and negotiation4 minute read
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Telecom account management practices for large, multi-site companies
Five practices that keep a large telecom account in order: one inventory, a review cadence, plans matched to use, carrier contacts and tracked requests.
Enterprise telecom management2 minute read
What we write about
Wireless
Articles on business wireless and IoT lines at scale: what each carrier's plan terms cover, the surcharges and device payments on every line, idle lines, and what to settle before a renewal.
Contracts and negotiation
Articles on carrier agreements, renewals and bids, and on how the fee you pay an outside firm shapes what that firm works toward.
Enterprise telecom management
Articles on running telecom across many sites, carriers and countries: the inventory, the review cadence, approvals and reporting, and who should do the work.
Guides and reference pages
- How to read a business wireless bill
Plan charges, equipment and one-time charges, and surcharges and taxes on a business wireless bill, and what to check in each.
- Telecom bill glossary
Definitions of the terms on a business telecom bill, from zero-usage lines to carrier surcharges and letters of authorization.
- How our fee works
The fee terms, what counts as savings, and what ongoing account management adds.
- Common questions
Answers on the free bill review, the fee, account management, carriers, company size and your data.
Each article shows when it was published and last updated, and carrier facts link to their sources. How we write and update our articles
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We'll review recent statements for the carrier accounts you choose and send every change we'd recommend, priced. Our fee is 30% of the savings we secure, for up to 24 months, and nothing is owed for the audit if we find no savings. Ongoing account management is optional, with a separate fee priced to your accounts. There are no per-line, per-device or per-user charges.
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