Five Reasons Why Hosted Ethernet Phones are the New Standard
Hosted ethernet phones are a solution that enables a company to utilize its data network to handle their communications needs, rather than the old traditional installations that required separate cabling and expensive equipment that resided on-site.
Cost-benefit
Equipment Purchase - Business owners, don’t need to buy expensive systems or hardware anymore. Instead, they’re just purchasing individual telephones.
Recurring Costs – Monthly payments are fixed per user. The rate per month typically includes unlimited local and North American long-distance phone calls. Service, support along with software upgrades are included.
Service and Support is Better
Your service provider can handle most service issues remotely. Support is over a direct web interface. You can add/subtract users, change names on the phone, even new features. This can all be done quickly and remotely.
Each user has access to their phone for basic changes via a web interface. They can customize their extension to work the way they want. No need to call your service provider to make programming changes easy done by the employee or the local admin support person
Business Continuity
Power outages and natural disasters are threats facing all businesses. Should you lose power, your system can automatically route incoming calls to designated cell numbers, another office, or off-site phones. This ensures your business can still answer inquiry calls.
Scalability
During an economic downturn, businesses need to downsize to survive. With better phone system providers, you can scale up or down, without contract penalties. You pay only for the number of phone extensions you need when you need them.
Flexible Work Environments
Work from Home – It is now imperative to have seamless workplace flexibility that enables staff to work from home where required. With ethernet phones, you have flexibility in where and how the staff is linked to the office phone system. Employees can be directly connected to the office phone systems by any one or more of the following:
Office phone plugged into the Internet at home
Wireless access using a desktop or laptop computer, and
Mobility options via a smartphone, IPad, or other network devices
Work from anywhere - Technology such as softphones enables people to work from any location, anytime. As long as there is internet access, you can work in a hotel room, a vacation cabin, or even on the beach.
Ultimately hosted ethernet phones improve the quality of life for the business owner and the staff. It will make a business more profitable and give a competitive advantage.