Most property management companies are overspending on telecom by 25–40%.
Legacy phone lines nobody uses. Internet tiers nobody needs. Contracts that auto-renewed without a second look. We audit every telecom service across your portfolio, find the waste, implement the changes, and manage your vendors on an ongoing basis. The savings start within weeks and recur every month.
What we do
A Bridging Main telecom engagement starts with a complete inventory of every telecom service across your entire portfolio—every property, every office, every line. Phone systems, internet service, mobile devices, POTS/copper lines, conferencing tools, answering services, and anything else with a monthly bill. Most PMCs have never done this. The total almost always surprises them.
We then review every vendor contract, identify every line item that can be reduced or eliminated, and build a prioritized savings plan with specific dollar amounts and implementation steps. We don’t hand you a report and wish you luck—we handle the vendor calls, manage the transitions, and make sure the changes actually happen.
What sets us apart: we have access to wholesale and bulk telecom procurement channels that aren’t available through standard vendor relationships. That means we can often source services at rates below what you could negotiate on your own, even after optimizing your existing contracts. The audit finds the waste. Our sourcing relationships drive costs even lower.
What we typically find
We call these the Five Telecom Waste Buckets—the predictable areas where PMC telecom overspending concentrates:
- POTS/copper lines still connected to fax machines, elevator phones, alarm panels, and gate systems—often at $80–$150/line/month for services that can be replaced with cellular adapters at a fraction of the cost
- Internet tiers provisioned for peak capacity that never actually happens—especially at smaller properties where a lower tier would perform identically
- Auto-renewed contracts that passed their term without renegotiation—often locking in rates 20–40% above current market
- Duplicate services left over from past provider migrations that nobody cleaned up—two internet circuits at the same property, old phone systems still billing alongside the new one
- Pass-through charges billed to properties by management without review—telecom becomes a line item nobody questions because the cost is distributed
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Open Estimator →The guarantee
If we don’t find annualized savings that exceed the cost of the assessment, we refund the difference.
$4,500 for portfolios up to 2,000 units. Larger portfolios are scoped based on the number of properties, vendors, and service types.
You can’t lose money on this engagement. The assessment fee covers a complete portfolio-wide telecom audit, vendor contract review, line-by-line savings analysis, and implementation support. If the savings we identify don’t cover the cost of the assessment within the first year, we refund whatever’s left. In practice, the savings we find typically exceed the assessment fee many times over.
The guarantee applies to annualized realized savings—changes that have been implemented and are reflected in your bills, not just recommendations on paper. We ask that you implement our recommendations within 90 days (or allow us to implement on your behalf). If recommendations aren’t acted on, the guarantee doesn’t apply—but we’ve done our job either way.
Ongoing optimization
Telecom waste creeps back. Contracts renew, usage patterns shift, new properties come online, vendors change their pricing. Without ongoing oversight, the savings you captured in the initial audit erode over time.
After the initial engagement, we offer monthly telecom management: monitoring your spend, handling vendor relationships, catching billing anomalies, renegotiating contracts before they auto-renew, and keeping your infrastructure current as your portfolio evolves. You get a monthly summary of spend by property with any flagged changes, and we handle the vendor work so your team doesn’t have to.
This is optional—some clients handle ongoing management themselves after the initial cleanup. But most find that the cost of monthly oversight is a fraction of what they’d lose by letting things drift again.
What changes for your operation.
Common questions
What’s included in the assessment?
A complete inventory of every telecom service across your portfolio, vendor contract review, line-by-line savings analysis with specific dollar amounts, a prioritized action plan, and implementation support. We work directly with your vendors to execute the changes—you don’t have to make the calls.
What if you don’t find enough savings?
If we don’t identify annualized savings that exceed the cost of the assessment, we refund the difference between what we found and the assessment fee. You can’t come out behind on this engagement.
How long does the assessment take?
Typically 2–3 weeks from kickoff to delivered savings plan, depending on portfolio size and how quickly we can access your billing records. Implementation begins immediately after you approve the plan—most quick wins (disconnecting unused lines, right-sizing tiers) are executed within the first month.
Do you handle the vendor transitions?
Yes. We manage the full implementation: disconnecting services, negotiating new contracts, coordinating provider migrations, and configuring new systems. Your team doesn’t have to manage the transition—we handle the vendor relationships so you can focus on running the operation.
Ready to find out what you’re overspending?
The discovery call is 20–30 minutes. We’ll ask about your current telecom setup, how many properties you manage, and when you last reviewed your services. If it looks like there’s meaningful savings to find—and there almost always is—we’ll scope the assessment and you can decide if it makes sense.
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