Track Hidden Cell Phone Costs with MegaCall
While the cost of a long distance phone call has decreased considerably over the past several years, cellular
phone charges are still quite expensive and can be found to be riddled with hidden expenses, such as:
Landline Fees:
You may incur a per minute "landline" fee (as much as .06 cents per minute) every time you use your
cell phone to talk with someone using a regular land-based telephone.
Home Rate Area:
If you use your cell phone outside your immediate "Home Rate Area," you will be billed the full per
minute charge specified in your service agreement even if you have "free airtime."
800 and Directory Assistance Calls:
These calls are always charged as calls made outside your "home rate area." You may also be charged
an additional fee for the Directory Assistance service.
Receiving Calls:
Cell phone companies charge for both making and receiving calls. You will not save your "free airtime"
by having people call you!
Termination Penalties:
Cell phone companies typically require you to agree to use their service for at least a year. If you quit early,
you may be charged hundreds of dollars.
Many corporations have begun to realize that employee cell phone usage accounts for a large percentage of their
telecom costs. Tracking these can be tedious in a large company with several carriers and hundreds of pages per
phone bill.
Would you like to charge back departments for cellular and calling card costs?
Megacall call accounting automates away manual bill allocation by importing
cellular, calling card, paging and Centrex information and charges from any CD, tape, or file. MegaCall can even
pull the file from your vendors' web site, using a variety of methods, e.g., FTP/EDI/XLM/HTTP/IPDR. Track and report
on all employee usage and charge back for these expenses to the appropriate cost center or department along with
other charges -- or use it strictly for reporting purposes.
MegaCall centralizes all usage by consolidating PBX calls, cellular, calling card, paging, VoIP, etc.
into one database.
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