What To Look Out For And What To Watch Out For: Hints And Tips Guide To SME Telecoms & Mobile Procurement Available

25.06.08 Portsmouth UK: From Utility Watch UK (www.utilitywatchuk.co.uk)

Leading utility price comparison and procurement group Utility Watch UK has prepared a detailed hints and tips guide to advise SMEs on buying telecoms and or mobile services. The free document not only covers the best things to look for but also some of the more common pitfalls and covers issues such as, fixed line rental, analogue/digital, call pricing, SIP trunks, VOIP options and Local Loop Unbundling.

How to proceed through the minefield of product choice and service options and how to identify the best kinds of contracts terms and rates are included, however the guide also points to a number of supplier practices which can leave SMEs at a disadvantage.

Some of the more common pitfalls are: minimum call charges, disadvantageous setup fees, automatic rollover contract terms, and minimum contractual spends. The guide tackles how best to deal with these.

Says Lance Pearson, of Utility Watch UK, “with the myriad of products and options it is all too easy for SMEs to get confused in making a sane choice. Sadly, however, this also means that inadvertently the decks are stacked in favour of vendors and suppliers. This can lead to smaller businesses, which do not have a procurement department or dedicated manager, making choices that cost them dear.”

For a copy of the guide those interested in receiving the guide can do so at guide {at} utilitywatch.co(.)uk or call 0800 etc 0800 652 5100.

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About Utility Watch
Utility Watch UK is the UK’s leading independent commercial utility procurement and brokerage group and has an acclaimed track record of saving significant sums of money and time for organizations who decide to review existing telecoms, electricity or gas supply.
This is either done through comparison software or in person by an experienced commercial sector utility advisor. Typical savings on business bills for those who have contacted Utility Watch UK to date exceed 20%.

Utility Watch UK does not only compare prices but can suggest a wide choice of supplier and tariff options to suit all types of business requirements, including Sole Traders, SME’S through to government bodies. All UK utility supplier services are constantly monitored to ensure that cost advice is as up to the minute as possible.

Utility Watch UK also help implement other cost-saving measures by using tariff-analysis software, energy efficiency programmes and regular reviews of the promotional sales packages available from the many utility suppliers now operating in the UK since market deregulation began.

Utility Watch UK is dedicated to providing improved utilities, purchasing of utilities and management programmes for the UK business market and have many satisfied clients, including Honda, Network Waste, the National Probation Service. In addition over 5000 SME’S across the country have been helped to date.

For further information, please contact:

Leigh Richards
The Right Image
0870 850 7631
07850 372527
leigh.richards {at} therightimage(.)eu
www.therightimage.eu

or

Lance Pearson
Utility Watch
07828 638513
0800 652 5100
lance.pearson {at} utilitywatchuk.co(.)uk

www.utlitywatchuk.co.uk