Price Wars Among Business VoIP Service Providers
Price wars result in some providers making service costs less transparent. The more complex the VoIP service provider pricing is, the more difficult it is to compare it to competition. Bundling “free phones” into the price of many of the hosted PBX services makes it even more difficult to distinguish individual price components. Some VoIP service providers even choose to hide their prices from their prospective clients. Instead of making their prices as obvious and transparent as possible, they force their prospective clients to sit through long sales pitches and needlessly complicated explanations of services offered, all in an effort to confuse these prospective clients into paying more than they need to.
Hosted PBX 4.0 moves to Beta
Release notes for DLS Hosted PBX 4.0a ( beta ) Feature Enhancements: Inbound call security enhancements. Switch Music on Hold format to wave for native playback. Attempt to convert uploaded Music on Hold and recordings to the correct format. Background images for Polycom 450, 550, 560, 650 , 670, and VVX1500 handsets. Supplied a link … Read more
The Surprise Selling Point for Hosted PBX Solutions
we realized that our hosted PBX solution’s more exotic features aren’t remotely possibly on normal phone lines and with conventional phone systems. Our customers had never seen these features before, and their novelty signalled to our customers that they were purchasing a hosted PBX solution that was truly, visibly, undeniably superior to their current system.
Information or Telecommunications? How Regulation Affects Hosted PBX and Law Enforcement
One of the growing pains that any innovative new technology goes through inevitably involves government regulation. Leaving PBX systems unregulated might work out well for new companies that want to start up, but it’s not good for their customers. So, to ensure that they are capable of complying with things like emergency services and law enforcement, things like VoIP and hosted PBX need to be appropriately classified, and acted on accordingly.
Hosted PBX Unwrapped: VoIP Features Your Business Cannot Do Without
When you select a service provider, you ultimately choose a set of features. In your search for a VoIP service provider, consider the following advanced features that go beyond the basics and provide your business increased flexibility and efficiency.