It is surprising how many businesses could save money by having a closer look at their monthly bills for fixed phone lines, mobile phones and internet services.
Over the years we have come across cases where businesses are paying unnecessarily for:
- phone lines that are not being used
- uncompetitive call packages for fixed phone lines or mobile phones
- outdated (ie slow) and expensive internet packages
The reason that many businesses don’t regularly review their telecommunication service provider bills is that these bills are often not easy to interpret and correlate with the actual services being used.
Calling a mobile phone from a landline is significantly more expensive than calling other landline numbers.
BT currently quote rates of between 10.66p per minute and 22.2p per minute for calling mobile phones.
This is in addition to their call set up fee which is currently 8p per call (and due to rise soon).
Therefore a 1 x minute call to a mobile phone would cost at least 18.66p.
There are discount packages available from BT and other providers, but as a general rule it is difficult to get mobile calling costs much below 10p per minute.