Does Your Cell Phone Cost Too Much?

Cell phones, Blackberries, iPhones, mobile internet - connectivity has become a hallmark of our society.

This a reality for both business and families. From a personal perspective, with all of my kids having cell phones, we no longer really use our land-line at home. Except to maintain it as an emergency number for school and such. We have gone completely wireless, and there has been some shock in terms of cost, but ultimately it was just working with the cell phone companies to find the right plan to meet our needs.

In business cell phones and cell phone bills have long been a necessary evil. I have seen monthly phone bills that were over $100k/month. In the context of a hundred million dollar company maybe this is in line, but do organizations really keep a close eye on cell phone and connectivity costs? If they don't, perhaps they should?

At a family level with 6 or 8 people, and one or two residential internet connections, spending 15 minutes each month going through the charges and spending an hour on the phone with the service provider is well worth the effort.

However, what about a company with 600 cell phones? What about 6000 cell phones? Managing such a huge number of devices and managing the billing costs is a huge expense in and of itself.

Here are my questions:

Are you ready to go completely wireless?

Have you ever suffered from "bill shock"? How much is your average monthly cell phone bill?

Do you use mobile internet (Aircard)?

What strategies do you use to control cell phone (and internet) costs?

For more information on cell phone “bill shock” read this ……

New Shocking Statistics On Bill Shock

To see what you can do to save on your cell phone bills look here ……

Save On Cell Phone Bills


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