…but that’s doesn’t mean your business needs to suffer! With a VoIP-enabled telephone system, not only can you save costs on outbound calls, but it’s possible to set it up so that your staff can connect to it wherever they have access to the internet. Flexible Working This has been a goal for many businesses [...]
A recent survey by top10.com has named the Kent village of Farningham as the place in the country with the lowest average broadband speed, a mere 1.3Mb/s. Slow broadband, as anyone who chooses not to live in a large town or city, is a fact of life in Britain. What makes Farningham’s situation so ironic [...]
or….How VoIP can help you project a ‘corporate’ image The Challenge Starting a business can be a very expensive exercise, with a wide range of up-front costs incurred. These can include stock, premises, staff and a million and one other things. In the past, a trip to your friendly bank manager with a business plan [...]
It can be very obvious when you, as a business, might consider a new phone system – moving office, for instance. However companies don’t move office very often, so does that mean you should stick with what you have? Not necessarily, no. I’d like to suggest some other times at which you should at least [...]
SME VoIP traffic considerations We have had a couple of installs recently that are very typical scenarios in the SME market sector. Interestingly enough, though, the businesses are very different to each other, one being an office-based company in the internet sector, the other a retail outlet serving the building trade. They are similar in [...]
Customers need to be able to answer the phone quickly and easily, it’s still the life-blood of most businesses. But smaller companies don’t always have a receptionist, especially if they don’t get a lot of visitors. So companies like these rely on the phone being picked up in rota, or by any one of a [...]
This is the first of a series of tips taken from the recent Packt publication Asterisk 1.4 – The Professional’s Guide, of which I am a co-author. I hope you enjoy it and find it useful. Asterisk is a very capable telephone system, that’s a pretty uncontroversial point of view. It’s also pretty safe to [...]
A few days ago Ebay sold a majority shareholding in Skype to a group of investors. They made a (relatively speaking) modest profit on their initial investment if you take writedowns into account, which a number of analysts have criticised, implying that they should have made a lot more money out of such an apparently [...]
There a lot of chat in the VoIP world at the moment about Nimbuzz, which is the latest in a lengthening line of mobile/cell VoIP-enablement software packages. Nimbuzz seems to be well thought-out, with an impressive range of gateways, including Skype. Will it succeed? Possibly, although it’s early in the hype curve at the moment [...]
The speculation looks like it was right on the mark, according to TMCnet. So while we’re awaiting the official last rights, it really looks like it’s RIP RP. In many ways this can be seen as the right thin for Microsoft to do. They had a pretty significant overlap in functionality with OCS that meant [...]
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