VoIP Toolkit
Story: Choosing the right VoIP equipment
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A useful guide, if your someone with too much time on your hands!
For small business managers, it's too much information and not the right information to decide what to do with their Telecoms requirements.
Choosing the right VOIP equipment, is not about whether the phone should be soft or hard, SIP or USB - rather, it's about - does it have the features your business needs, is it expandable and future proof, what support do you get when things go wrong, and what does it COST?!
VOIP Phone System?
Get one that supports both VOIP and Landlines - VOIP as a low cost solutions does deliver quality reliability. You'll need the landlines for customer inbound calls, and VOIP for low cost international and national calls.
Which phone system?
Don't look at headline prices - they quote low to fish you in. Get complete quotation for everything, including installation, warranty and support. For example, when the low price system may not be low when you add VOICEMAIL, extra extensions, VOIP lines etc.
Don't just look at the bigger names.
Like everything, it pays to shop around.
If you linux minded, try asterisk, or if you like windows and want something easy to manage and highly featured try, http://www.smallbusinessphonesystem.co.uk
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