Get the Best Pricing and Features for your Business Phone System

When finding the best phone solution, it all starts with how many phone lines your business requires. Our Business Solutions Advisors are experts at matching your business needs with the best phone system, with the right provider, at the right price.

Bundling a business voice system with your current Internet Service Provider (ISP) would mostly likely be the best solution for a business with 1-3 employees that all require individual phone lines and handsets. This is only in cases where your business requirements are focused on the basic phone features such as 3-way calling, call forwarding, call waiting, caller ID, etc.

ISPs such as Comcast Business, Spectrum Business, and Cox Business offer great business phone bundle solutions for simple phone line systems with minimum feature requirements.

Once your business requires any more than 3 phone lines, the most cost effect solution would be to go with a specialized business Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) provider such as Nextiva, RingCentral, or Vonage Business.

These specialized providers have the most affordable rates, the most features, and in most cases have free equipment options.

No matter how many phone lines your business requires, the business phone features you need may determine which type of provider to go with.

Basic phone features would include the following:

3-way calling
3-way call transfer
Call forwarding
Call waiting
Caller ID
Call blocking
Call transfer
Call return
Call pickup
Do not disturb
Extension dialing
Speed dial
Simultaneous ring
And more

Internet Service Provider (ISP) business phone bundles are perfect for businesses in need of only the basic features, so long as the phone line requirements are no more than 3 max.

The most popular business features today go beyond the basics. Modern businesses focus on collaboration platform suites and unified communication solutions defined in the next section.

If your business is interested in the ultimate communication experience for employees and customers, then a specialized business Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone provider is the best solution.

Whether you need 1 phone line or 100, if unified communications are important to your business then only providers like Nextiva and RingCentral will suffice.

Unified communications features:

Work from anywhere on any device
Mobile and desktop applications
Connect via chat, video, and audio
Advanced VoIP conferencing
Messaging, screen sharing, and file sharing
Business text from your mobile device
One-click conference calling
Schedule meetings and assign tasks
Track conversations and team projects
Real-time data with custom reports
Call recording
Boost efficiency with app integrations
Voice Analytics
And much more!

Business Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and unified communication solutions only work with the right amount of internet speed.

Typically, a VoIP interaction can consume around 78k per each. This may not seem like much, but you’ll definitely need more bandwidth when you included additional business internet usage.

A good standard guideline would be 1Mbps up and down per each seat.

There are also SD-WAN solutions that can prioritize your business-critical applications to maximize your available bandwidth.

Contact our expert Business Solutions Advisors today for a free business consultation to ensure you have the best business internet services for your VoIP system. Call 1-888-285-3158

If you are looking for a business phone solution specifically for emergency services such as an elevator phone or call box, then we recommend you go with a Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS) line instead of any service that is dependent on an internet connection.

This of course is to avoid the lost of phone service due to internet outages.

Some telephone communications providers and Local Exchange Carriers (LECs) offer both POTS and VoIP solutions. Landline providers: AT&T, CenturyLink, Frontier, Verizon, etc.

If your business has already invested in an on-site PBX system to manage phone calls, then from a technology perspective you will need one or a combination of these four types of phones or end points—Analog, Digital, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), or Session Initiation Protocol (SIP).

The PBX was developed to provide large companies a cost reduction in their telecommunications expense by allowing them to handle their own system routing.

Today the most cost effective and productive approach would be a cloud-based PBX solution which is better known as a Unified Communications (UC) solution or Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS).

Most businesses have or are in the process of migrating from analog to IP telephony. This movement is mainly because VoIP offers more cost savings compared to its traditional counterpart.

Switching to a business VoIP solution can save up to 60% in telecommunications monthly cost.

Call today and see how much you can save. Our Business Solutions Advisors are standing by ready to serve you.

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