Nov
01
2010
Government To Reduce Costs of Vodafone Contracts
Across the globe, private citizens and governments alike are trying to find ways to cut costs in down economy. Some cuts are large and obvious, but other less apparent costs are eating away surpluses, as well. Reviewing cell phone plans is one way some have found to save some money. The British government recently announced a massive cut in their contract with Vodafone.
The idea is simple enough: review the costs associated with having so many people who work in the government equipped with high-quality phoneswith expensive mobile phone plans. The plan is not to take phones away from workers but to find a way to consolidate some of the cost of such a large phone contract. Part of the problem is that there are numerousgovernmental departments all dealing with their own contracts, each beginning and ending at different times and having different particulars of the fine print of the contract. With an overall of this process, the contract will be more efficient throughout the entire government. It is estimated that the total savings to British taxpayers with the efficient use of unlocked mobile phone plans in the government will be around five billion pounds.
Vodafone is prepared to work with the British government to find ways of lowering the cost of the service for mobile phone usage. The company should feel a strong incentive to do lower the price in order to maintain the large contract that is has with the government. Currently, the British
government purchases ninety-eight percent of its unlocked mobile phone service from Vodafone. The government should have a significant bargaining power over the company to lower its price and will surely do so in order to appease British taxpayers. Governments and individuals are cutting costs, sometimes starting with something so common as their cell phone plans.
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