A telecom audit and network optimization is much more than the three words, analyze phone bill.  When a client asks for that, a true telecom consultant should cringe.  The reason is the phone bill portion of the telecom audit only scratches th surface.

While it's true that errors still exist in phone bills which is why you would analyze a phone bill, there are many more ways to reduce telecom expense and this mainly has to do with optimizing elements of the client's telecom network.  This falls more under the sub-category, telecom inventory management.

The main purpose of telecommunication inventory management is to eliminate waste, and we like to use this simple example.  An employee gets sick and tired of receiving bogus fax spam and throws her fax machine out the window. She then downloads eFax into her desktop and now she doesn't have to waste time and toner on stupid, unwanted faxes.

But, alas, she forgets to cancel the POTS line since the plug is hidden behind her credenza.  Month after month, your company accumulates a $30 charge because someone forgot to cancel a line. 

When you optimize your telecom network, you eliminate this and many other types of waste.  You may be charged for circuits you cancelled years ago.  Or for circuits you never ordered in the first place.  You may have an an opportunity to reduce telecom cost by changing your bandwidth requirements.  It could be something as simple as bundling 18 POTS lines only a T-1 or PRI, creating instant monthly savings.

The main reason waste typically abounds in organization is the fact that over the past two decades there has been so much growth.  It gets to he point that you don't know exactly what you have, where it is, and how it's used.  This is why with the modern telecom audit and network optimization, waste is the first thing we attack.  That is where the telecom expense reduction takes place. 

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