Don’t assume that you’ll receive the pricing and terms you negotiated for and agreed on. This is the tenth installment of CarrierBid’s eleven part series on the telecom procurement process. I once procured a number of CenturyLink PRIs for a chain of car dealerships. CenturyLink offered a single low rate for all the customer’s locations […]
The negotiation begins after you receive the bids from the voice and data vendors that are participating in your RFQ. This is the ninth installment of CarrierBid’s eleven part series on the telecom procurement process. Don’t choose a leader after you receive the bids back, doing so will reduce your leverage. You want all the […]
CarrierBid will be exhibiting and presenting at the Telecom Expense Management National Summit, May 23rd through the 24th, at the Madison Hotel in Washington, DC. The Telecom Expense Management National Summit is put on by the Voice Report and CCMI. It’s a two day seminar on wireless and wireline telecom expense management – that covers […]
A vendor will only put its best foot forward if it believes it has a reasonable shot to win your business. Unless your current voice and data provider believes there is legit chance to lose your business, it won’t offer much. This is the eighth installment of CarrierBid’s eleven part series on the telecom procurement […]
Integra Telecom announced yesterday, May 11, 2011, that they will no longer accept new orders from businesses with a single location that bill less than $200 a month. Integra won’t abandon existing customers that fit into that category and still accept new orders from those customers. This is an interesting move because Integra had positioned […]
Come visit CarrierBid at Interop, booth 2455, mention our website, and be entered into a drawing for a $50 Starbucks’ card. CarrierBid will save you time, money and the aggravation from working with the phone company and its competitors. We can help you design and implement an MPLS network. Ask us how we could reprice your […]