Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Phone Plan Brokers- A better option for business


Mobile phone plans can be a real nuisance for businesses. They can be complex, nitpicking, and almost incomprehensible in terms of charges and services. Few people in business have either the time or the inclination to wade laboriously through endless details. Nor should they have to. It’s bad business practice, and these plans can be ridiculously expensive in terms of administration, particularly if you’ve got multiple business mobile phones and systems tied in to them. The solution to this situation is to use phone plan brokers to get the best deals at the best rates.

Phones can be a massive expense, if you’re not careful. Some of the older, more ridiculous phone plans on the market are real cashflow-eating monsters. Administratively, they can be a curse, particularly the older style plans. You may get an itemized phone bill, but try going through it and checking anything. It’s a colossal waste of time and space.

Phone plan brokers- An overview

Phone plan brokers are literally brokers, like the other types of brokers. They assess phone plans for business the same way finance brokers evaluate mortgages. They’re experts in the field and they know how to get the best deals and compare options for their clients.

Business people need to understand how valuable this service is in real dollar terms.  Phone plan brokers can quite literally save businesses a fortune.  They can access and evaluate all the plans on the market, and go looking for appropriate plans for particular businesses. Better business phone plans these days have done away with the multiple charge rates, strange private/business phone call splits and the extraordinarily expensive additional charges which used to apply to the old plans.

Costs and values

Cost efficiency is the core value in any business phone plan. If you want any kind of business mobile service, you should be able to get:

·         A flat rate, not a sort of jigsaw puzzle in dollar form, as your baseline cost

·         Additional business services and benefits from the provider

·         Multiuser options for your phones

·         If the provider is also supplying the phones, you should have top quality phones and built in features of value to your business

·         A clearly laid out series of additional options as extras with all charges upfront

If you ask your phone plan broker to get these things for you, that’s exactly what you’ll get. You can see how the business values are built in to plans like these. Your outlays are well defined, and you don’t get any “surprises” on the phone bill.

One of the reasons for the sudden increase in popularity of phone plan brokerages is that businesses around the world had been griping with good reason about the cost and complexity of phone plans. The other reason is that phone plan brokers have been effectively enforcing competitive standards on the phone providers. The providers are well aware that to be considered their plans must be competitive and contain useful, cost-effective features for businesses if they expect to be considered by the brokers.

If you’re looking for a better business phone plan, start by talking to a phone plan broker. You’ll be stunned at the difference.

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