Pots Management

POTS Management & Consolidation

What is POTS Consolidation?Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS) - analog business

phone lines.Companies with multiple offices spread across wide

geographical areas can have hundreds of POTS lines serviced by multiple carriers.

The result is a legion of bills, from multiple providers, complicating bill and inventory management.

POTS Aggregators have wholesale agreements with most of the local phone companies servicing the US.

Those agreements make it possible for POTS Aggregators to offer companies one bill and a single point of contact.

Benefits:Reduces administrative costsFacilitates bill and inventory managementCost reductionSingle point of contactElectronic billingEliminates third party billing charges

Reduces Administration Costs: According to The Institute of Management and

Administration, the average cost to pay an invoice is $11.63.

A company with 500 offices that receives an individual bill for their phone lines at each location, would face administrative costs approaching $6000 a month.

With POTS Aggregation the company could eliminate 499 bills and save approximately $6000 per month or $72,000 per year.

Facilitates Inventory & Bill Management: Carrier Web Portal:

Access to all billing charges Visibility of POTS and broadband inventory Ability to manipulate data and generate custom reports

Cost Reduction:Percentage savings off the carriers’ tariff pricing.Approximate 5 to 8 dollars in savings per phone line, per

month.

Single Point:Single point of contact for:

Billing issues.Moves, adds and changes.Service issues.Repair tickets.

Electronic Billing:POTS Aggregators are electronically bonded to major carrier

networks and provide real time reporting.They offer detailed site billing and reporting capabilities.Provide consolidated national invoicing. Billing statistics can be manipulated to produce custom

reports.

Eliminate 3rd Party Billing Charges:Incumbent carriers operate as billing agents for 3rd parties.Their customers are exposed to third party billing charges or

Cramming.Most charges are for services that were never requested,

authorized or received. With incumbent billing it is important to analyze each and

every bill to spot 3rd party billing charges.Eliminating unwanted services and obtaining credits can be

time consuming.

Example of 3rd Party Billing Charge:

Three Main Providers:

Provider One:Strictly POTS and DSL Promises a discount off carrier’s tariffed ratesFocuses on line rates and impressive customer list

Provider Two:CLEC that acquired Ernest CommunicationsLine rates include all surcharges Only additional charges would be state and local sales taxCan provide a full suite of telecom services

Provider Three:National CLEC that offers POTS aggregationCan provide a full suite of telecom services including SIP

and Hosted VoIP

The CarrierBid Difference:One-stop-shop Expertise and experienceFull disclosureCustomer advocacyPOTS inventorying and evaluation Project managementCarrierBid does not charge a fee or request a split of the

savings

Contact Information:John GelhardCarrierBid Sales DirectorToll free: 888-706-5656 x 701Direct: 609-921-3434Email: johngelhard@carrierbid.com