The New Jersey state government has paid more than $3.2 million annually for more than 19,000 phone lines that had gone unused and were no longer needed, according to an audit released Wednesday by the Office of the State Comptroller.
In response to the audit's findings, state agencies have disconnected or suspended each of the lines.
The audit of the state's Office of Information Technology (OIT), also found the state has been renewing some of its major telecommunications contracts for more than a decade without opening the contracts up to competition as required by law.
Don't let this happen to you! Let TelecoWorks help review your current invoices and keep your carrier honest. Don't forget to alert current telecom providers not to auto renew at the end of the contract term. Give yourself the freedom to investigate new technologies and new lower priced providers.
About Telecoworks
- Valerie Brauckman Burgess
- I was recruited by Bell Atlantic (now Verizon) almost twenty years ago as General Manager of its Video Dial Tone rollout. VDT deployment was the forerunner of Verizon's FiOS and delivered television programming over fiber via the public switched network. Since that time, I have become a local voice and data expert specializing in VOIP, SIP and switched Ethernet deployments. After leaving Verizon, I was hired as AT&T's East Coast Global Business Development Manager responsible for selling and deploying local voice services to AT&T's long distance and data Enterprise customers. After leaving AT&T,I managed several CLEC's indirect sales channel before launching my business in 2001. TelecoWorks is an independent telecom consulting firm representing all of the major telecom carriers in the marketplace today. Geared to successfully support businesses navigating new voice and data technologies, TelecoWorks' goal is to improve a company's connectivity, enhance their business processes, and ultimately save them money.