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Controlling your wireless costs

Many businesses cringe when they open the invoice for their wireless service. It sometimes seems as if controlling these costs are a never ending game. But there quick items to look at to help control those cost.

Are you paying replacement insurance?
If you are, should you?
Replacement of a cellphone or other wireless product can be expensive. A question that need to be asked is; How many phones do you have? If you have a few, it may be a valuable cost. If you have quantity of phones then the added cost of the replacement plans may be greater than the costs of replacements.

One way to determined whether it’s a waste is to take an inventory of how many replacements you made in the past 2 years. Determined what it would have cost to replaced those phones and and compare it to the cost of the insurance. If the Replacement cost would have been less than the insurance. You didn’t need the insurance.

How are you using your minutes?
Do you regularly use more minutes than you have on your plan?
It may be easier to purchase the all inclusive unlimited plan, but for most this is much more than needed and just making a couple of minor adjustments and reductions may save a bunch of money. Also if you are using more minutes than you have on your plan even if it’s only a few times a year, moving to the next higher plan could save you a few dollars.

Are you paying for extras that aren’t being used?
Being able to make or receive a text message is great, but are you paying for a texting plan, but not using it. Most carriers have an reasonable rate for single messages. Are you using a lot of text messages that are billed at message rates? Add a texting plan.

This is also true when looking at a data plan. Are you using it? Is there a least expensive plan that fits your usage?

The only way to know for sure is to study your bills, or have an expert review the invoices. It should be done each month. After reviewing them for a perioed of time, a year period is good, you’ll see the trends on how the phones are being used.

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