GuideNetwork · 6 min
How do we consolidate dozens of sites and carriers onto one contract?
Put every site, circuit and contract end date in one inventory, then bid the whole footprint at once, so one provider answers for all of it. One bill.
The Clectiv team ·
Thirty carriers means thirty contracts, thirty bills, and thirty numbers to call when a site goes down. Nobody is accountable for the whole thing. Consolidating fixes that, and the inventory you build to do it usually finds money on its own.
What goes in the inventory?#
Every line you pay for, at every site, with its contract. You can't consolidate what you can't see, so the inventory comes before anything else.
| What | Why it matters |
|---|---|
| Site address | Decides which carriers can reach it, and how fast. |
| Every circuit at the site | Type, speed and carrier. Sites often have lines nobody remembers ordering. |
| Monthly cost | Taxes and fees included, so the comparison is real. |
| Contract end date | When each site can move without a penalty. |
| Auto-renewal notice period | Miss it and the line renews for another term. |
Expect surprises: lines still billing after a site closed, two circuits doing one job, a contract that renewed itself years ago.
Finding those is money back before anyone bids. The plan asks the rest, from account numbers to which sites have a backup line.
Before you call anyone#
Build that inventory in Clectiv AI, and no carrier hears from you until it's done. Clectiv AI then runs the process, putting it out to bid with the providers that fit so they compete, and you choose. Go to one first and you get a quote for the sites it likes, from a rep who knows nobody else has been asked.
Can one provider really cover every site?#
Often, yes, and the proposals show who can. No carrier owns lines everywhere. The big ones reach the sites they don't own by buying local lines from other carriers and managing them for you.
That's still one contract, one bill and one number to call. You don't care whose fiber reaches the parking lot. You care who answers when it's down.
Some providers do only that: they buy local lines from many carriers and sell them to you as one service. Granite and CommandLink work this way. GTT, Lumen, AT&T, Verizon, Comcast Business and Spectrum combine their own networks with partners' lines.
Find out which sites each one serves on its own network, and which through a partner. That tells you who really owns the problem at each address, and the plan asks it of every proposal.
Mark the sites that can't go down with Clectiv AI, and the plan says where one provider can't cover a site well. A second provider for a handful of sites is fine. Thirty isn't.
While you're consolidating, decide what else rides on the same contract:
- A second path at sites that can't go down: 5G, fixed wireless or satellite, on a different network than the first line.
- SD-WAN, to run the whole footprint as one network.
- The network inside each site. Managed Wi-Fi, run for you, for one monthly price. Meter sells it this way.
These are network providers we bring to the table, and Clectiv AI runs the process with them for you: start a project.
Other buyers already paved this. Clectiv AI runs the process we've run for teams like yours, so you start where they ended up. And the plan goes to these providers directly, for the best pricing, terms and contract we can get.
How do we move without paying twice?#
Move each site as its contract ends, and make the new provider handle the rest. You don't have to wait for every contract to end before you start.
The order is the calendar. Sites move as their contracts end, soonest first, each with a short overlap before the old line goes. The plan asks the rest, from notice periods to the circuit numbers you'll need to cancel.
One hint: early termination fees are negotiable. Some providers will cover them on sites you want to move sooner, to win the whole footprint.
Keep the inventory after the move. It's the map for your next renewal, and the first thing to update when a site opens or closes.
Clectiv AI bids the whole footprint at once. Every site sits in one plan, so each provider prices the same thing, and none of them gets to quote only the easy sites.
Common questions#
Can one provider cover all my locations?#
What's a carrier aggregator?#
Do we have to wait for every contract to end?#
What should a network inventory include?#
Do you handle the hardware too?#
How does Clectiv AI get this done?#
Open Clectiv AI first. Tell it how many sites and carriers you have. It scopes the consolidation with you and writes your plan: every site, what each one needs, where it has to reach, and which sites need a second path.
Then the Clectiv team takes your plan to the carriers and network providers that fit, all at once, through our partner network of 620+ providers. Real bids come back, the providers compete for your business, the team pushes on terms, and you choose.
Companies like yours made this climb before. Clectiv AI runs the process we've run for them, so you start where they finished. The providers that fit get the plan directly, and you get the best pricing, terms and contract we can.
It's free to you, and it moves in days, not months. The rest of what we source in network is on the network page.
Leaving MPLS at the same time? Read how MPLS, SD-WAN and SASE work together.
Sources and method. No prices appear in this guide. Provider names are examples of who sells multi-site networks, from Clectiv's provider directory, not a ranking.