It's easy to drop your guard when you're dealing with a business phone and internet service provider, like AT&T, Verizon, or CenturyLink, but doing so could cost you. In this blog we will discuss four telecom red flags; if they come up, beware. Common Telecom Red Flags Explore the following…
There are two ways that telecom services are sold: through sales reps employed by the carriers (the direct channel) and by telecom agents (the indirect channel). The people that make up the two segments possess different skill sets and experience levels. Most agents launched their careers in the direct channel.…
CarrierBid, offers both hosted and premise based business phone systems. We don’t favor one type of system over the other; it really depends on what our client’s needs are. In this exercise, I’m only focusing on the positives of both systems. I’ll start out with premise based and then switch…
ABOUT SD-WAN SD-WAN, known as Software Defined Wide-Area-Network allows a business to manage all of it's data connections, traffic management and hardware for the entire company through a single software package. SD-WAN is transport agnostic and enables multiple network topologies and services to be used such as broadband cable internet…
The choice is yours when shopping for business phone and internet: Work with telephone and cable company sales reps or a telecom agent. You could schedule meetings with multiple telcos or one meeting with CarrierBid. A CarrierBid professional will analyze your company's current setup and discuss your goals, shop the relevant…
In 1907 AT&T’s slogan was “One Policy, One System, Universal Service.” AT&T, through the Kingsbury Commitment, was allowed to operate as a monopoly and not subject to antitrust action. That monopoly continued until 1984. At that point, AT&T was broken up into smaller regional phone companies, called RBOCs, or Regional…
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