Can hosted VoIP save me money?

In these times of Credit Crunch and recession, one of the areas that businesses may be able to save money is by moving their telephone services to a hosted VoIP provider (such as ourselves).

For those who don't know the terminology, hosted VoIP is the routing of voice conversations over the internet through any IP-based network. Unlike a traditional phone system which requires a PBX service in your office, hosted VoIP is a managed telephone solution delivering your calls straight to your desktop phones or computers.

In no particular order, I've listed below the key reasons that our customers say they've saved money by using VoIP:

• VoIP Advantage updates the software and systems every few months (if you had your own PBX in house how often would you spend money on upgrading it?)
  
• it gives you the ability to grow and contract your business without large capital cost
  
• it increased our employee productivity and mobility
  
• the voice service is bought monthly, so if you need to add or remove users you can do it, without any penalty
  
• if you make office moves, there are no relocation costs you simply move the telephone handsets to the new office, plug them into the network and they work
  
• integrating home workers into your organisation is just as simple. If your employees have a home broadband connection, deploying a handset to their home seamlessly connects them into your office telephone service
  
• for calls to normal fixed line telephones or mobiles the call rates can give savings of up to 42% on standard tariffs
  
• additionally any calls between your VoIP enabled office or home workers are free
  
• paying BT for ISDN or analogue lines isn't cheap, by receiving your calls over broadband internet connections you can reduce a significant part of monthly overhead cost
  
• don't miss a sale, you can forward your office extension to a home office phone, your mobile, and any fixed line number or even set a number of phones to ring (home, office, mobile and assistant)
  
• with the VoIP Advantage online control panel you can administer changes yourself, adding new extensions, amending voice menus and hunt groups and more
  
• you can even avoid having to buy expensive handsets by downloading free 'softphones' and just plugging your headset into your computer to use VoIP

If you now think hosted VoIP can help save you money give us a call on 01273 358000 or visit www.voipadvantage.co.uk to find out how to sign up and start saving!