On top of those savings are even more low hanging telecom fruit available from the:
[ ] cell phone plans that now allow the call of cell phones across carriers without using airtime;
[ ] cell phone calls are not charged long distance rates;
[ ] cell phone’s use of WiFi networks allows lower cost data rate plans;
[ ] and rather than organizations having employees carry/costs of a company cell phone AND a personal cell phone, further savings come from eliminating organizations cell phones by just subsidizing individuals for their personal cell phones.

In addition to cell phone savings being the number one in low hanging telecom fruit, other fruit of significance are unused phone landlines. Often if an organization has moved without first inventorying what they currently use in phone landlines, landlines are likely to be left behind, and the organization continues to be billed even though they are they no longer reside at their previous location. The phone company does not call and ask if the owner would like the phone lines removed from their bill. At $30 to $50 per month per phone line, times 12 months per year, soon the billings can add up to be real money.

The future is in the Internet Cloud as the Cloud becomes more popular further phone savings are being realized from using hosted phone services from the “Cloud”.

Note: savings can be enormous with use of the Internet Cloud but with those savings don't open yourself to the liability of putting all your telecommunications at risk by being dependent on a single connection to the Cloud. The more you outsource to the Cloud the more robust/reliable must be your connection to the Cloud.

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Chuck Lare, an Electrical Engineer and President of Lare & Associates LLC, vendor neutral in guaranteeing telecommunication savings for businesses.