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If you’re a large business with hundreds of locations and thousands of business lines, you should be using a POTS line aggregator.
A single POTS, or business phone line, isn’t expensive but if you have hundreds of them, their cost and the worked required to manage their billing can be immense.
POTS aggregators possess resale agreements with all the incumbent phone companies: AT&T, Verizon, CenturyLink, Frontier, Cincinnati Bell, Consolidated Communications, FairPoint and Windstream.
The benefits of working with a POTS aggregator:
- Cost Savings
- Bill Consolidation
- Single Point of Contact for Moves, Adds and Changes
- Electronic Billing
- Eliminate 3rd Party Billing Charges
- Prepare for TEM
Cost Savings: All the aggregators discount the carrier’s base rates, for phone lines, but the biggest savings will be derived from reduced accounting and administration costs. Aggregators can group all of a company’s POTS lines, DSL and wireless accounts into one single bill.
Bill Consolidation: A national company, with thousands of locations, could receive hundreds of phone bills. Hundreds of bills, from multiple providers is a giant workload. With so many bills, it would be difficult to catch every billing mistake or erroneous charge, much less process them all. With a POTS aggregator you’ll receive one bill for all your lines across the country.
Single Point of Contact: One provider simplifies billing, customer service, ordering, disconnects and trouble reporting.
Electronic Billing: POTS aggregators are electronically bonded to major networks so they can provide real time reporting. They offer detailed site billing and reporting capabilities.
Eliminate 3rd Part Billing Charges:
Incumbent phone companies provide billing services for various organizations, legitimate and not. These third party companies are literally the barnacles of the telecom industry. If you’re dealing directly with an incumbent provider, you need to proactively monitor your billing to prevent erroneous charges. Not with POTS Aggregators. POTS Aggregators don’t have 3rd party billing arrangements, so you won’t see any of those types of charges on your billing.
Prepare for TEM: If a company is considering deploying telecom expense management, aggregators can help simplify the process by greatly reducing the number of bills that need to be logged into a TEM system.
Some of the largest companies in the world use POTS aggregators to bring down the cost of and help them manage their business phone lines. Those include Target, Walmart, Burger King, and even Verizon Wireless.
Because we represent multiple providers, CarrierBid telecom consulting is your one-stop-shop for POTS aggregation. CarrierBid can help you find the best solution for your company.
