Advanced Services - Competitive Rates
Whether you are planning to build a communications network, replace your current
network, or augment your current services, partnerTEL can help insure that any
services you procure come from best-of-breed providers, with favorable Ts &
Cs, and are delivered at rates that mid-sized companies could not get by
negotiating on their own.
partnerTEL has Agency agreements with nearly 50 service providers, including all
of the Tier-1 carriers. Under this agency model, we can sell you the same
services that they sell directly, at significantly lower rates. Because we
represent far less cost to them, we can offer our customers their services
(along with their 24x7 support!) at rates that customers could not get by
buying direct.
partnerTEL customers can take advantage of world-class service and highly
competitive rates on:
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Voice - local, LD, toll-free
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Data - private line, frame relay, ATM, SONET
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Internet - biz-DSL, dedicated access from DS0 to OCn, VPN
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MPLS - dedicated or mixed ports (includes Internet access)
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Voice-over-IP - access, PBX, handsets, and installation
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Wireless - service, phones / PDAs, EVDO cards
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Hosting, Disaster Recovery, Hardware, Managed Network Services
Turn-Key Service: from Planning to Contracting
For a company to perform the proper due diligence surrounding procuring
services, they must go through a lengthy RFP process that can severely burden
internal resources (assuming their personnel have the skill sets to perform the
work). Requirements must be gathered and packaged; the RFP must be distributed;
vendors will ask for clarification; and responses must be fully analyzed on
numerous points. Once completed, they must then undertake a selection process,
followed by detailed contract negotiations.
partnerTEL can off-load all of that burden from its clients, while saving time
and money throughout the process, by performing the following services:
Strategy Planning
With the emergence of IP-based services and the rapid evolution of service
integration, matching business needs with available technologies is
particularly challenging. By interviewing key stakeholders and understanding
strategic direction, partnerTEL can help you build an operational, financial
and service plan to address current and emerging needs.
RFP Selection Process
partnerTEL will compile your needs in a detailed Request for Proposal that will
be sent to carriers and vendors. The responses that get returned will be
assessed for technology and business compatibility, service resiliency &
redundancy, support, security, service level agreements (SLAs), price, contract
terms, etc. Based on an objective, weighted scale, partnerTEL will make a
written recommendation, with the final decision being made by our client.
Contract Negotiations
Once the provider(s) is selected, partnerTEL will insure that the terms within
the contract proportionally favor our client, and do not expose them to any
unnecessary risks or unusual terms. With decades of collective experience in
telecommunications contract negotiations - much of it on the carrier side -
this portion of the service is very difficult to duplicate, even by engaging
costly legal counsel.
Note - partnerTEL can also assist in the renegotiations of
existing contracts.
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