Verizon Overcharging Tactics Will Be Investigated By The FCC
The FCC indicated that they will be investigating Verizon for allegedly wrongly or incorrectly charging customers for data or internet use. “‘We can confirm reports of an FCC investigation into mystery fees that appeared on Verizon Wireless bills costing over 15 million Americans tens of millions of dollars,’ Michele Ellison, FCC enforcement bureau chief, said [...]
Blackberry Encryption Has Been Broken – Stay Paranoid
Infoworld is reporting a Russian passcode-breaker firm has figured out a way to break RIM’s industrial grade security for Blackberry server backups. According to the article, CEO Vladimir Katalov: All data transmitted between a BlackBerry Enterprise Server and BlackBerry smartphones is encrypted with a highly secure AES or Triple DES algorithm. Unique private encryption keys [...]
More Confusion Come, Verizon Prepared To Introduce New Data Plans
We regularly talk with clients that find their telecom bills to be frustrating to decipher and understand. Our clients simply don’t have the time or feel that it is worth their effort to spend 10 – 20 plus hours reviewing their bills. Understandably, after diligent review and scrutinizing – most businesses throw their hands in [...]
Fees and Other Charges on Your Telecom Bill – What’s Legit?
Ask anybody who pays a telecom bill, be it an individual paying for one Plain Ole’ Telephone line or if you manage thousands of phone bills, the bits and pieces of the bill that can drive anybody crazy are those “other” fees. Usage fees (what?), government taxes (don’t like them but okay), Misc fees abound. [...]
The Big Reminder – aka A Slap Across the Face
One of the things my wife likes to remind me about is that sometimes I’m a little hard-headed. As a guy, I get a little “proud” of my abilities and sometimes I forget the bigger picture. Some of you guys out there are nodding your head in agreement, I know. Take for example my latest [...]
How Much Money Is Your Telecom Bill Leaking?
We hear many accolades for what we from our clients. The idea of being able to reduce costs, streamline and organize telecom services at ZERO COST is admittedly a pretty attractive offer and once we’re able to show them how easy it is because it requires almost no time involvement from our clients. More often [...]
The Tale of Blind Vendor Allegiance
A number of years ago when I was a young sales rep fresh in the world of telecom, I was determined to get into “that” account. You know, the prize account all sales reps dream of landing. The company that has the name on the outside of the building, the one that is in the [...]
Telcom Carriers Want An Even Bigger Slice
With the success of Apple’s iPhone owed much to their App Store that touts over 100,000 apps available to their customers, many hardware and software providers have taken notice. Research In Motion has the RIM Application Center, Google – the Android Market, Qualcomm, Nokia, Handango and Microsoft to name a few have Mobile Application Stores [...]
Got a Telecom Refund Coming to You? Don’t Wait.
One of the best ways to reduce your telecom bills is simply doing a basic review of your services regularly. In my 2 decades of experience I can tell you that you have a greater than 80% chance of finding ways of reducing your costs by doing so. NOT ALL cost-corrective opportunities are easy to [...]
One Vendor, Multiple Prices, Wrong Answers and Outright Lies. What Gives?
If you’ve ever had to send out a Request For Proposal (RFP) or simply tried to find the pricing for a telecom product or service you know that it’s not always a simple matter. If you call up the local office, search for pricing on the company’s website, or compare prices from your neighbor down [...]
Benny Carreon is the President and CEO of GrayBear Resources Group. GBR is a next-generation telecommunications consulting firm. We aren't a telephone company's vendor disguising itself as a consultant. We don't sell carrier products that would conflict with out mission - our goal is to work for our clients by reducing costs, streamlining services, eliminating waste and fraud while providing the least disruption to your business.
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