| Voice and Data When deregulation was implemented, rates decreased dramatically. Nevertheless, many of our clients complain their telephone costs have increased significantly.
HBS clients are saving from 20% to 50% on their voice and data cost. Often times corporations are paying for services they are not actually using. We will do a full analysis of your account and provide you with a solution for true savings. The right plan at the right price.
Local
Verizon and its sisters, the baby bells, have a strong foothold in the market for local telephone service. In New Jersey, alone, Verizon has about 85% of the local market. Many packages are sold bundled; therefore, you may be paying for services you are not even using. HBS does a full analysis of your local service charges to determine what services you are using. These services are available in unbundled packages and are offered at a much lower rate.
Verizon bills local calls in message units. A message unit is billed as a 5-minute call. Local per minute call charges and unlimited calling rates can provide significant savings. Many of our clients are continuing to pay line charges for inactive or cancelled phone numbers. By analyzing this data, HBS offers you information accurately to project what your local rates should be. Making the appropriate corrections will provide you with significant savings!
Long Distance
Rates for long distance calling have dropped dramatically over the past few years. Clients are now able to pay under 4 cents a minute with 6-second increment billing. They have seen their long distance rates drop from 20%, 50%, at times over 100+%. Cutovers are seamless and savings increase profits!
T1 Integration
The digital age has ushered in a combination of quality voice and data usage through digital cables. If your office has a combined voice and data usage of a minimum 15 lines, digital cable is a real option. These rates are also very competitive with expanded local calling area coverage. Two significant reasons to consider T1 Integration, is its affordability and increased efficiency. Naturally, all this spells increased profitability!
Cell
The cellular boom has been a mixed blessing. We are now able to keep in constant contact with our employees, clients, associates, friends, and loved ones. Initially, companies offered minimum plans that introduced cell availability to all/some of their employees. However, at the time, they failed to realize the penalty for exceeding minutes allotted on the plan. These costs, per user, significantly drive up corporate expenses.
HBS analyzes the calling patterns of each user and places these users on the proper calling plans. Currently, local portability allows you to move from one to another provider and keep your existing telephone number. Often times HBS is able to restructure plans with the existing provider to achieve your goals. We will present a proposal listing options of restructuring your existing plans with your current carrier along with comparisons of similar plans available through other providers. You now have a choice to help you increase corporate profitability!
VoIP
Voice over IP (also known as "Voice over Packet", "Voice over Internet Protocol," or "VoIP") works by converting the sound of your voice into digital packets of information that transverse the Internet in much the same way as emails and Web pages. However, you do not have to hover over the computer or use a special headset to make a call. Simply plug your regular telephone into an adapter box that hooks up to your cable or DSL modem. Now you are ready to place or receive calls.
VoIP provides rich benefits for all levels of users, from networking equipment manufacturers who are providing next-generation equipment to service providers, who can now market new services to business and home users.
Users will benefit from revolutionary, new VoIP-based services. New applications such as web-enabled call centers, collaborative white boarding, remote telecommuting, and personal productivity applications such as "follow-me" services and unified message handling, are all part of the VoIP sea change.
In other instances, the way services are delivered is revolutionary. While early implementations of VoIP consisted of using the internet for low cost PC-to-PC voice communication, today, due to adoption of standards, interoperability among networking equipment and improvements of quality of service, VoIP is one of the hottest communications technologies being adapted for transmission over broadband technologies such as Cable and DSL. The future is now. VoIP offers a viable alternative to the market and increases corporate profitability!
Source: Time Magazine - Voices on Broadband |
