Description of Profit Analysis

An in-depth Profit Analysis, customized specifically for your organization, shows your current expenses, and provides you with information on alternative carrier plans, which may reduce your expenses.

This Profit Analysis is performed by studying the telephone bills submitted by your organization.

Calling Patterns

First, your "Carrier Consultant" will review your bills to determine your calling patterns. Calling patterns means how you use your telephone. Some of the following information defines a company's calling patterns:

• Destination of long distance calls:
  • Intrastate (calls within the same state)
  • Interstate (calls to outside the State)
  • International (calls to other countries)
  • LATA/Local Toll
    
• Origination of 800# calls:
  • Intrastate (calls from within the same state)
  • Interstate (calls from outside the state)
  • International (calls from other countries)
    
    
• Data Requirements :
  • DSL
  • T-1
  • MPLS

   

Current Expenses

Then the charges from your current carrier(s) are reviewed to reveal how much you are paying, and for what you are being charged. A detailed study reveals such information as:

• Dial-tone costs 


• Data costs 


• Per minute cost for intrastate and interstate calls
  
  
• Per minute costs for the international countries you call
  
  
• Billing increments (6-second, 30-second, or full-minute)
  
  
• Monthly recurring, service, & membership fees
  
  
• Local loop charges for T-1 dedicated access
  
  
• Discounts or penalties

Comparing Carriers

Once your organization's calling patterns and current expenses have been determined, Carrier Consulting can review other long distance providers and compare their price and services against the price and services from your current carrier.

By matching your specific calling patterns to a carrier which best suits your needs, Carrier Consulting can offer you cost-cutting opportunities. For example, if your current carrier gives you very good interstate rates, but most of your calling is intrastate (within your same state), you would be better off with a carrier that features very low intrastate prices.

Carrier Options for Network Optimization

Carrier Consulting then presents your options, including a recommendation for the optimal carrier(s). Although cost savings are a primary goal, the optimal carrier is determined by other factors besides strictly current rates. Issues such as term plan restrictions, fixed rates, carrier promotions, and potential rate increases are considerations.

For example, one carrier may have the lowest rates if the client commits to a term plan, but if the specific carrier has strict penalties for cancellation and does not guarantee the rates, it could be risky. Another carrier may have slightly higher prices, but features fixed rates and does not require a term contract These types of factors are reviewed when making a carrier recommendation.

Your Network Analysis may recommend a combination of carriers to achieve maximum efficiency. Your outbound long distance service, 800# service and calling card service may best be served by three different carriers. Or it may be advisable to split your outbound or inbound 800 traffic between two carriers, providing network back-up in the unlikely event of a carrier outage.

Because we are a consulting organization and not a salesperson for a single provider, we can recommend more than one carrier if that is in our client's best interest.

Ultimately, you, the client, choose which carrier(s) you want from among the options presented.