When infrastructure changes, old services rarely get cancelled. They just keep billing. Enterprise technology upgrades are planned carefully. The new infrastructure gets scoped, budgeted, procured and implemented. The project gets signed off. The team moves on. What doesn’t always happen: the old services get cancelled. Legacy telecom services continuing to bill after a technology migration is one of the most common and most avoidable sources of enterprise overspend. It happe

FY26 is closing. FY27 budgets are being built. Here’s why telecom deserves more scrutiny than it usually gets. Every year, at around this time, finance teams across Australian enterprises go through the same process. FY26 actuals are reconciled. Category budgets are submitted for FY27. Forecasts are stress-tested. Senior leaders ask hard questions about the numbers. Telecom rarely gets the same scrutiny as other categories. It sits in the indirect spend portfolio, approved mo

And what it's costing enterprise organisations every year. Ask a CFO, CIO or Procurement leader to name their top indirect spend categories and you'll hear the same answers: professional services, facilities, technology, travel. Telecom rarely makes the shortlist. That's not because it's small. In most medium-to-large enterprise environments, telecom represents a material line item, often $500k to several million dollars annually across mobile, data, voice, and internet servi

Ongoing telecom analysis provides greater control than one-off audits.