Reduce Mobile Call Costs
GSM Gateways can help slash mobile costs
When studying your mobile phone bill, you'll be aware that the major costs are associated with calls from fixed lines to mobiles. There is a way to reduce these costs.
In the highly competitive mobile phone market, the network operators have lowered the cost of mobile to mobile calls as an incentive to bring users to their networks.
Some operators allow "free" or uncharged calls to other users on the same network. It is also a common practise for mobile operators to offer "capped plans", enticing users to use mobile phones more.
UK businesses can take advantage of these capped plans and tariffs to reduce mobile costs by adopting GSM gateway technology.
What's a GSM Gateway?
Also known as a GSM Router or Fixed Cellular Terminal (FCT), this is a device containing a SIM card(s) which connects to your PBX, diverting calls made from fixed lines to mobiles through the SIM cards to turn them into lower cost mobile-to-mobile calls.
Different GSM Gateways can contain multiple SIM cards, meaning that businesses never need to make another mobile call through their existing fixed line network, resulting in the dramatic reduction of outgoing call costs.
Are you using Mobex?
Through fixed/mobile convergence, many organisations have deployed a Mobex application allowing for incoming calls to be simultaneously delivered a PBX extension and to a nominated mobile number which is set up as a mobile extension off the switch. The call to the mobile is an expensive fixed-to-mobile call and takes up a line on the PBX to deliver it.
With a GSM Gateway in place, the PBX can route mobile extension calls via the mobile network instead, creating a lower/no costs mobile-to-mobile call.
Case Study - How to Save £57,000 per annum
One of CCT's clients, a global recruitment consultancy has benefited from the implementation of a GSM Gateway.
From their two main UK sites, they were making a total of 125,000 minutes of calls from landlines to UK mobiles per month at an average cost of £0.08 per minute, amounting to £120,000 per year.
CCT installed a 30 port StarGate and a 12 port Bluestar GSM Gateway in their two offices and equipped these gateways with 121,500 pre-paid any network minutes SIM.
The result: We were able to drop the per minute costs to £0.04, realising a saving of £57,000 when considering the costs of rental of the gateways.