Most enterprises carry telecom contracts that have not been benchmarked in years. Circuits get stranded, plans age, and the spend rolls over untouched because no one owns it.
That neglect is also the opportunity. A full inventory usually finds circuits no one uses and rates well behind market — 20–35% of removable cost is common.
Consolidating volume across carriers and regions into a single negotiation creates leverage no individual renewal has. The carriers compete for a bigger, cleaner book.
The work is unglamorous — inventory, benchmark, retire, reset — but it is among the most reliable savings in the IT estate.