AOTMP Research: Contract Service Level Agreements (SLAs) Favor Telecom Carriers, Not Enterprise Clients

INDIANAPOLIS -AOTMP, the leading authority on driving efficiency and performance into fixed and mobile telecom environments, released the results of research conducted surrounding service level agreements (SLAs) within enterprise telecom carrier contracts.

While well-rounded telecom carrier contracts include SLA provisions addressing technical integrity, account management/customer care performance and billing/financial performance, AOTMP research reveals these items are not properly addressed in the majority enterprise contracts and that an alarming 11% of enterprises reported not having any SLAs in their telecom carrier contracts.

According to AOTMP’s research, only half of enterprise telecom carrier contracts contain SLAs addressing customer care, with 50% containing SLAs addressing customer service response times and 49% containing SLAs addressing customer service issue resolution timeframes.

Although billing accuracy was noted as a top frustration for enterprises, only 31% of the enterprises surveyed had SLAs addressing billing accuracy in their telecom carrier contracts.

“After reviewing the research it has become clear that enterprise opportunity exists to improve SLAs in telecom carrier contracts,” says Timothy C. Colwell, senior vice president of global information management at AOTMP. “It would be to both parties’ advantage to include comprehensive SLAs containing clear performance measurement criteria, defined remedy for out-of-scope performance and remuneration for out-of-scope performance. Enterprises would also benefit by adding more carrier incentives (additional service awards, service winbacks and increased service volume) for outstanding performance serve to incent desired performance in all areas.”

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