You can keep as quiet as you like, but one of these days somebody is going to find you.”

-Haruki Murakami

Verizon has taken new steps to becoming a leader in the mobile industry. They are now allowing consumers to increase their data for free, or allow them to stay at their same level of data for ten dollars less. Each plan for different levels of GB is a different price. This is a deal that could save each existing mobile plan $120 dollars per year. For businesses, this could mean thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars saved.

However, Verizon reps are not automatically giving existing customers these discounts. Instead, they are making it the customer’s job to monitor these deals and making no effort to tell them about the promotion. Not only do the customers have to be constantly aware of new promotions, they also have to call the company and sit on hold to tell Verizon they want this discount. Both consumers and businesses alike are too busy to monitor these confusing promotions. This trend of mobile service providers discounting services and host promotions for new clients, without informing existing customers is occurring too often. This is because telecom service providers normally focus on obtaining new clients, and not retaining existing customers.

Thankfully there are expert third party telecom specialists available to you that are aware of all telecommunication promotions and can work with your providers to get the lowest rates possible. These companies take over the job of monitoring new savings and working with reps to alter contracts. However, a simple warning, make sure to use a third party telecom vendor that wants to work with you as a partner and is experienced in contract negotiation. This can make the pivotal difference between you saving hundreds of dollars, instead of thousands of dollars.

Personal Tip to Save # 1: When you pay for Apps or Ringtones to your phone, make sure it is one solid fee and not a fee plus a charge every month.

The telecommunications industry’s goal is not to target your company to pay too much. However, if you’re not looking through your bills thoroughly they are probably not going to say anything if you are over paying…

The fact is, telecom companies are not evil, they simply don’t tell you every time their rates and charges go down or if you are paying too much. However, after years of not checking thousands of bills, errors continue to occur and the most current telecom fees available are not apllied, and those small charges and old fees really add up.

The problem is, if you don’t have deep experience in the telecommunications industry you often don’t know where to look for those hidden charges. Experience is something Limitless Technology CRS has in abundance. For instance…Todd Larsen, President and CEO of Limitless Technology, has dedicated 25 years of his career to the telecommunications industry, and he and his staff know all about  those charges the average business person may miss.

Limitless Technology CRS’s only job is to save you money, so if your company doesn’t save, Limitless Technology CRS doesn’t get paid. We are firm believers in helping companies improve bottom lines and become more successful.

Give us a call at (866) 504 4050 or go to www.limitlesstechnology.com to find out more about us.

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For four days in a row, the fully charged battery lasted only 25 miles before the Volt switched to the reserve gasoline engine.

Eric calculated the car got 30 mpg including the 25 miles it ran on the battery. So, the range including the 9 gallon gas tank and the 16 kwh battery is approximately 270 miles. It will take you 4 1/2 hours to drive 270 miles at 60 mph. Then add 10 hours to charge the battery and you have a total trip time of 14.5 hours. In a typical road trip your average speed (including charging time) would be 20 mph.
According to General Motors, the Volt battery holds 16 kwh of electricity. It takes a full 10 hours to charge a drained battery.

The cost for the electricity to charge the Volt is never mentioned so I looked up what the average American pays for electricity, (it varies with amount used and the seasons) $1.16 per kwh.

16 kwh x $1.16 per kwh = $18.56 to charge the battery.

$18.56 per charge divided by 25 miles = $0.74 per mile to operate the Volt using the battery.

Compare this to a similar size car with a gasoline engine only that gets 32 mpg.
$3.58 per gallon divided by 32 mpg = $0.11 per mile.

The gasoline powered car cost about $15,000 while the Volt costs $46,000.

So some politicians wants us to pay 3 times as much for a car that costs more than 7 time as much to run and takes 3 times as long to drive across country.

REALLY?

Bottom line is…understand what you are buying before you sign the contract. If already too late…find someone that can help you lower your costs.