Cut Mobility Costs Without Losing Coverage
Reduce wireless and mobility spend by up to 35%, while improving uptime, security, and visibility for a team that's always moving between sites.
How This Works
As a partner with OTG Consulting, I consult on what actually fits your business and connect you with the provider that delivers it. OTG is a consultancy that presents the services of other providers rather than delivering them itself.
The capabilities described on this page are delivered and supported by the service provider you select, not by Paul Petro IO or OTG Consulting. My role is helping you choose well and staying reachable after the contract is signed.
Accounting for 175 Marines and their equipment, most of whom were rarely in the same place at the same time, is closer to the mobility problem than it sounds. Devices go out with people, people change roles, and the inventory drifts away from reality within a couple of quarters unless somebody clearly owns it.
Most of the overspend I have seen in wireless fleets is not bad rates at all. It is lines still active for someone who left in March, or a plan sized for a job nobody does anymore. That is why the lifecycle piece matters more to me than the pricing sheet when I evaluate a mobility provider. Good rates negotiated once will quietly leak back out through an inventory nobody is maintaining.
Paul Petro · U.S. Marine Corps veteran, 25+ years in telecom and IT
Device Management, Connectivity, and Analytics
- Handset, tablet, and eSIM sourcing and lifecycle management, handled by the provider.
- LTE, 4G, and 5G plans with pooled data across your whole team.
- Satellite and fixed wireless backup for locations where cell coverage gets thin.
- Predictable monthly pricing instead of a surprise bill after a busy month.
- Helpdesk support and device management for iOS, Android, and rugged field devices.
- AI-driven anomaly detection that flags billing or performance issues before they add up.
Built for Crews Who Cross the Island All Day
Property Managers and Tour Guides
Field staff need reliable devices and connectivity everywhere they go, not just within range of an office wifi router.
Coverage Gaps Happen
Satellite backup and fixed wireless access mean a dead zone on the North Shore doesn't mean a dead line of communication.
Predictable Costs
Mobility-as-a-Service pricing means budgeting for devices and data doesn't turn into guesswork every quarter.
Questions I Get About Mobility
Where does the money actually go on a business wireless bill?
In my experience it is rarely the headline rate. It is lines still active for someone who left months ago, plans sized for a role that changed, and devices nobody can account for. The rate you negotiated is usually fine. The inventory around it is what drifts. That is why I care more about who owns the monthly line-by-line review than about the pricing sheet. Rates negotiated once will leak back out through an inventory nobody maintains.
My crews lose signal in the tunnels and out on the west side. Can anything fix that?
Not entirely, and any provider who promises otherwise is overselling. Oahu's terrain is the constraint: the Koolau range, the Pali, Likelike, and H-3 tunnels, and the stretch out past Makaha all create real gaps regardless of carrier. What can be fixed is how your applications behave in those gaps. Dispatch and job-tracking tools should queue work offline and sync when signal returns rather than failing outright. For sites where coverage is genuinely poor, fixed wireless or satellite backup at the location is usually a better answer than changing carriers and hoping.
We have people on Maui and the Big Island too. Does that change anything?
It changes the management overhead more than the cost. Neighbor island sites tend to get set up separately, often years apart and sometimes on different plans, and then nobody reconciles them. When I look at a multi-island operation the first thing I ask for is a single inventory across every island. It is common for that list to be the first time anyone has seen all the lines in one place, and it is usually where the obvious savings turn up.
How long does it take to get a replacement device here?
Longer than the mainland service level implies, which is why I read the logistics terms rather than the response-time headline. A contract promising next-business-day replacement means something different when the depot is 2,500 miles away. The practical question is whether the provider keeps stock in Hawaii or ships everything from the mainland, and what the loaner policy is while you wait. For a field crew, a phone that is dead for a week is a person who cannot work.
Can we do this without switching carriers?
In most cases yes, and that is usually the better path. Switching carriers is disruptive, it resets relationships, and it rarely addresses the inventory problem that caused the overspend in the first place. I would rather see the current agreement renegotiated and the line inventory cleaned up first. If a carrier change still makes sense after that, it can be done deliberately instead of as a reaction to a bill.
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- (720) 915-0003
- paul.petro@otgconsulting.net
- Serving Oahu, the Hawaiian Islands, and the mainland US
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