Founded in 2003 and based in Chicago, Optelcon exists for one reason: to stop companies from overpaying for telecom, mobile, and IT services—and to make the process effortless. For more than 20 years, we’ve helped organizations uncover hidden fees, negotiate better contracts, and slash technology costs by 35–45% on average.
While vendors control what you see, we see everything—real market pricing, special discounts, buried fees, and the terms your competitors are getting but you aren’t. That visibility gives our clients the leverage they need to secure the best possible deals, every time.
To deliver guaranteed savings through transparency, vendor accountability, and data-driven negotiation—while requiring almost no time or effort from our clients.
Did you ever notice that billing errors are never in your favor? We know exactly where to look to find hidden charges and billing errors. We meticulously audit your invoices and manage the recovery process to ensure optimal results. Our average recovery rate exceeds 12% of our clients' prior-year and future spending. (A combined 24% in year one savings)
Don't wait until contracts are about to expire to renegotiate. 70% of the contracts we renegotiate have more than 12-18 months remaining in their term. Leveraging our extensive vendor relationships, proven negotiating tactics, real-time market pricing, and contract expertise, we have successfully renegotiated over $2.5 billion in contracts, resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars and an average savings of over 35% for our clients.
We streamline the vendor qualification and RFX process, prequalifying vendor capabilities, compiling competitive bids from multiple providers in days rather than months. Our independent broker model ensures that you receive unbiased recommendations tailored to your specific needs. We reduce the time and headaches associated with the telecom and IT sourcing process by 80% or more, offering better pricing.
Optelcon goes beyond validating billing accuracy. We actively renegotiate mobile rate plans using proprietary tools, real-time market pricing, and expert analysts to ensure clients pay the lowest possible cost, not just the correct cost. Clients achieve average savings of over 45%, equal to $400,000–$600,000 annually for every 1,000 corporate mobile devices. We monitor usage monthly, continuously optimize plans, and proactively move clients to newly available lower rates so savings increase over time.
Optelcon has access to detailed company, technical, and wholesale channel pricing data from over 330 vendors worldwide, providing you with competitive options that you wouldn't have independently. We maintain independent relationships with top-tier providers across various categories, including telecom, IT, mobile, shipping, and energy.
We guide you through contract execution and implementation to ensure smooth transitions and maximum value realization. Our team remains engaged to monitor performance and ensure vendors deliver on negotiated terms.
Optelcon turns energy spend into immediate, measurable savings. We perform a deep analysis of your current energy costs and, in deregulated markets, run a competitive sourcing process that pits energy providers against each other to secure the lowest possible rates. No disruption. No operational changes. No risk. Clients typically see 12–15% reductions in energy costs simply by letting the market work in their favor. The result is fast savings, improved budget predictability, and a lower monthly bill.
For organizations spending over $500K annually on shipping, Optelcon delivers immediate and ongoing savings. Our technology audits shipping charges daily, automatically identifying overcharges, missed delivery guarantees, lost packages, and improper surcharges. We also provide a single, analytics-driven view of all shipping spend across carriers, uncovering waste and process improvements that drive lasting results. Clients typically reduce shipping costs by approximately 15%.
Optelcon helps self-insured employers reduce healthcare spend by uncovering fraud, errors, and waste hidden in medical and pharmacy claims. We audit the charges submitted by healthcare providers and drug companies to ensure your plan only pays what is accurate and contractually required, recovering overpayments on your behalf. In addition, our eligibility audits identify covered individuals who are no longer eligible, a common issue affecting roughly 5% of large employer plans. The result is immediate recoveries, ongoing savings, and tighter control over one of your largest expenses.
Optelcon has built one of the industry’s most powerful telecom and IT pricing databases—backed by billions of dollars in real, audited contracts. We know exactly how far vendors will go to win your business, and we know how to work with their finance teams to secure pricing and terms they don’t offer to the average customer.
We’ve seen the deals they hope you never see—and that insight gives you a decisive advantage.
As a broker for more than 150 global telecom, mobile, and IT providers, we deliver pre-qualified, pre-engineered, multi-vendor solutions with wholesale-channel pricing—almost instantly. No sales reps. No bloated proposals. No long RFP cycles.
Powered by one of the industry’s most comprehensive databases of network maps, lit buildings, data centers, capabilities, and pricing, we make finding the right solution fast, accurate, and effortless.
With billions of dollars in negotiated contracts behind us—and the data to back it up—we’ve turned early-price reductions into a repeatable science. On average, we get vendors to lower our clients’ rates 12–24 months before their contracts expire.
It’s tough for vendors to claim they “can’t go any lower” when we present their own pricing, proving exactly how low they’ve gone for similar customers. We know how to fast-track special pricing approvals and secure new, lower rates based on today’s market, not the outdated terms you signed years ago.
Join the growing list of enterprise companies that have partnered with Optelcon to improve profitability and optimize their vendor relationships.