PWC Advises Doing More With Less

The firm's consulting arm recently announced its Telecom Cost Minimizer practice, which focuses on doing more with less, said Paul Gaynor, a partner at PwC.

"We take a [telco's embedded assets, its network, people and systems and make them work better," he said. "It could be optimizing a network, putting more capacity over pieces of fiber or making sure every bill comes in the door."

Many telcos operating with legacy systems are missing billing opportunities, Gaynor said. For example, in previous PwC engagements, telcos were found to have provisioned lines without charging the customer. In other cases, cancelled lines were never actually terminated, so customers received free bandwidth.

Gaynor said PwC has found a total of $1 billion in unbilled revenue from more than 80 worldwide engagements in two years.

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"You don't have to go out and make more money to improve the bottom line," he said. "You need to operate more effectively."

PwC tools include a traffic analyzer that finds the optimal path from one point to another at the lower possible cost and a tool that helps telcos aggregate several customers' T1 lines into larger DS-3s.