Archive for April, 2009
Five Problems to Control with Telecom Expense Management
April 3rd, 2009 | Author: Malcolm
How does telecom expense management save you money? Any fleet of phones can accumulate cost inefficiencies. Some of these happen because of the way carriers bill customers. Others stem from making less than optimal choices about cell phone plans, long distance billing and other telecom services. Here are five common issues that a professional telecom cost audit and expense management program can remedy. Â
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Blackberry Takes Competition up a Notch with the App World
April 3rd, 2009 | Author: Malcolm
Blackberry opened its App World on April 1st, 2009, taking a leap into the kinds of personalized smartphone applications made popular by Apple’s iPhone. Now that competitors are rolling out touchscreen phones and people aren’t as dazzled by the style and technology, Apps are easily the most popular aspect of the iPhone. On the other hand, iPhone Apps tend to be more recreational than practical, in keeping with the phone’s popular image as a high tech toy. Blackberries have always been more business oriented. Will the App World reflect this?
Rogers’ New CEO Symbolizes the Power of Wireless
April 3rd, 2009 | Author: Malcolm
Ending persistent speculation about whether it would be him or the late Ted Rogers’ son, Edward, Nadir Mohamed officially took over as CEO of Rogers Communications on March 31st, 2009. Mr. Mohamed isn’t a well-known figure to the public at large, but people in the telecommunications industry know him well. From 2000 to 2005, he led Rogers Wireless, taking it from an annual loss of $36 million to a steady increase in profit, to the point where Rogers Wireless now reports net earnings of over $1 billion a year.
GILL Technologies on Twitter
April 1st, 2009 | Author: Malcolm
We’ve finally made the leap to Twitter! Join GILL Technologies at http://twitter.com/GILL_Tech for daily updates on the telecommunications industry, telecom expense management, cell phone plans and services and other issues as we see them – along with anything else our official Twitterer thinks is relevant or interesting.
