http://www.telecomauditguide.com "Telecom Tips and Strategies" by TelCon Associates, Inc. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:31:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en TelCon Associates has recently begun offering a new mobile service offering for multifamily and senior living facilities via their new website, Text2Residents.com. Text2Residents.com offers users a custom text and voice application that will not only save time and increase productivity for management and staff, but also help ... http://www.telecomauditguide.com/cell-phones/text-messaging-for-multifamily-and-senior-living-facilities/ Fiber Optics can be defined as: the system or branch of engineering concerned with using optic fibers.  An optic fiber is a filament of glass that transmits  light and it most often referred to as simply "fiber". One fiber consists of a glass strand, only as wide as a human hair ... http://www.telecomauditguide.com/telecom-equipment/telecom-networks-101-basics-of-fiber-optics/ Dial Tones and Switches When you pick your phone you get what is known as a "dial-tone".  A dial-tone simply tells the caller that the switch is ready to receive a phone number so that it can connect two parties.  If the caller does not respond in a short amount of ... http://www.telecomauditguide.com/telecommunications/telecom-networks-101-dial-tones-switches-and-the-co/ A good auditor is not only skilled in the myriad ways of finding savings throughout the vast landscape of telecom bills, contracts, CSRs, etc.,  he (or she) inherently possesses a thorough grasp of the origins and history of the telecom industry itself. "Telecommunications" refers to something vastly different than it did ... http://www.telecomauditguide.com/telecommunications/telecom-101-origins-and-history-of-the-telecom-network/ Essentials of Telecom Auditing is a 2-day seminar, to be held on October 25th-26th, 2010, at the Doubletree Hotel in Overland Park, KS.  Participants will learn the skills necessary to reduce and control corporate telecom spending throughout their organizations. The state of the economy has prompted corporate organizations ... http://www.telecomauditguide.com/telecom-auditing/new-seminar-scheduled-essentials-of-telecom-auditing/ The amount of telecommunications information generated by a typical mid-size American company is staggering compared to 20 or more years ago.  Today's telecom departments are literally inundated each month with invoices for local services, long distance, wireless, internet services, equipment leases, contracts, etc.  Consistently organizing and ... http://www.telecomauditguide.com/telecom-consulting/how-to-manage-telecom-data-and-information/ AT&T has recently made smartphone data pricing more accessible and cheaper for many users, which could be a boon to the business user when it comes to wireless expenses. Today AT&T Mobility made a major revamp to its smartphone data plans, including iPhone plans, and added data tethering to ... http://www.telecomauditguide.com/smart-phones/atts-new-smartphone-pricing-plans-spell-relief-for-business-users/