All businesses should keep an eye on their expenditure. This includes regular bills such as utilities, business mobile calls and landline telephone calls.

By switching suppliers money can be saved and this translates into increased profits. A regular annual review is recommended to ensure that your business is on the best tariffs for its usage.

• Make cheap business mobile phone calls

  How to save money on your business mobile phone calls will depend on how you currently use them. This is very important - you need to analyze your current bills to see where savings can be made.

  If you don't have a package of inclusive minutes and texts and are paying for each and every call and SMS could you save money by signing up to an inclusive deal? This is not the case for everyone. Some users will have a mobile phone primarily for incoming calls and make outgoing calls infrequently. For them paying for each call and text may work out cheaper.

  Are you regularly, or even occasionally, exceeding your monthly allowance of minutes? If so you are likely to be paying exorbitant per minute rates for calls outside of your bundle and need to think about increasing your allowance.

  On the other hand you may only be using a small proportion of the inclusive minutes. Can you move down to a lower inclusive bundle and save money?

  Do you use the phone abroad? If so calls and texts can be charged for outgoing AND incoming. Can you get a plan including roaming in the countries you regularly visit?

• Make cheap business landline phone calls

  Again the key to saving money on your business landline phone calls is knowing where the expenditure is being made.

  Is your bill largely made up of local rate calls, national rate calls or even international rate calls? Are you paying extra to call mobile phones from your landlines?

  The tariffs for landline calls can vary widely between suppliers and the difference between 1p and 2p a minute may sound small but it means your bill is going to be doubled if you are paying the higher rate.

  Have you thought about new technology and how that might help reduce costs? More and more businesses are changing to IP phone systems which allows their calls to be routed over the internet. Could this help your business save money on phone calls?

  There is also technology available to allow all outgoing calls to mobile phones to be routed through a SIM card. These calls can then be included witin a package of inclusive minutes meaning you are paying a tiny fraction of the regular mobile call rates.

  Are you paying extra for lines you don't need? New technology can bring in extra capacity in a single line.

At 21c Telecom we want to hear from you and we want to help you make cheap business phone calls and reduce your costs. Asking us to review your current arrangements will cost you nothing and you may be surprised how much you could save.

With a free review (we call it a Telecoms Healthcheck) from 21 Telecom we will help your business analyze where savings can be made and ensure you are on the best deal for your usage. As integrated telecoms specialists we can advise on landlines, mobiles and also other services such as mobile broadband.

Get in touch for a free no obligation quote.

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