TelCon Associates is a premier management consulting firm that helps medium sized and multi-location businesses gain control, improve efficiency and, most importantly - cut costs in their telecom and IT departments.

Our experienced consulting can improve your "bottom line" by providing the expertise, the manpower and proprietary systems to help reduce your telecom/IT spending and uncover areas of inefficiency in your telecom/IT departments.

Since 1972, TelCon Associates has helped thousands of companies save millions of dollars in unnecessary spending as a result of our consulting services.

TelCon Associates has no affiliation with any telecommunications
carriers.
We pride ourselves on
delivering objective and unbiased consulting services.

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TelCon Associates works with you to improve the cost effectiveness of your telecommunications services (voice and data). These services include:

COST REDUCTION CONSULTING
Our core business includes an extensive review and inventory of all services, both voice and data. Our cost reduction consulting program provides a thorough audit of telecom bills and customer service records, as well as onsite or telephone interviews with end users. This detailed process uncovers areas for major savings within your telecom/IT departments.

GENERAL EVALUATION
Review of services, facilities and related matters, leading to the identification of significant concerns within your telecom/IT departments.

CONTRACT NEGOTIATION & REVIEW
Assistance in RFP development,and/or tariff negotiation on client's behalf; proposal review to determine pitfalls or areas where additional negotiation may be required.

OUTSOURCED SERVICES
Bill Management
Telemanagement

The telemanagement and bill management departments at TelCon will relieve your staff of the headaches and time-consuming tasks of adds/moves/changes and bill paying completely. Here's the best part: we will continue to perform routine auditing and cost-reduction each and every month!

TRAINING:

Custom on-site training
2-day Audit Seminars
Free booklets/E-books
Free monthly newsletter
Telecom Cost-Cutting Reference Manual
CD ROM Audit Training

Customized on-site training, usually detailing the cost-reduction process, or seminars using TelCon consultants as main speakers. We have been guest speakers and trainers for CCMI nationwide seminars for 20 years.

TelCon also offers a variety of published training materials to help you, including: free booklets and e-books, CD ROM training, Telecom Cost-Cutting Reference Manual, and a free monthly e-newsletter. All of our training publications are affordable and are designed to help you continually learn how to keep your telecom costs in check.

Fees are always tailored to fit client needs and the nature of the assignment.
Fee arrangements include contingency and fee-based - each containing no-risk guarantees.

COST REDUCTION CONSULTING: Fee-based

With our fee-based cost-reduction consulting, the client pays the total of of one month's billing spread over 12 equal monthly payments. Clients retain all refunds, credits and cost-cutting optimizations. Our unique guarantee: If we do not identify annual savings equal to our fee, we will gladly refund you the difference.

In addition to the consulting, our fee-based agreement provides the client with an electronic database inventory of all lines and their uses. To keep bills clean and your staff informed, you'll receive accesss to our training materials at no charge.

Contingency fee arrangements are also available. Contact us for more information and how we can help you construct a suitable contingency arrangement that will work for you.

TELEMANAGEMENT
(Outsourced Services)
This service is provided with a retainer or subaccount fee. TelCon takes care of all direct expenses, including postage, checks, envelopes, and bank charges.

BILL MANAGEMENT
(Outsourced Service)
This service is provided with a retainer or subaccount fee. TelCon takes care of all direct expenses, including postage, checks, envelopes, and bank charges.

GENERAL EVALUATION
This service is provided on a project or hourly fee basis.

CONTRACT NEGOTIATION & REVIEW
This service is provided on a project fee or on a contingency basis or hourly fee basis.

TRAINING
All in-house and customized training is provided on a per-diem or project fee.

A standard consulting agreement is used for our cost reduction consulting assignments. Other projects are detailed and presented to the potential client for each project.