http://www.telephony.soho-world.com Are you getting a phone system that you really need? Voip, Voip..don't get caught in the hype Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:18:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Residential VOIP phone service may be cheap when you calculate the cost of all the features bundled into one low price. But when it comes to business VOIP, I beg to differ. Consider this, a good business VOIP service will cost you between $22.95 - $32.95 per month. If you ... http://www.telephony.soho-world.com/dont-buy-voip-just-for-the-hype/ I recently left the company I overworked for and accepted a new placement with a fresh employer at a much more soaring wage. My occupation is IT, and I gave up the solace and stabilty of my superannuated job to function for a startup firm which I opine ... http://www.telephony.soho-world.com/to-phone-or-not-to-phone/ A hunt group is basically two or more individual phone lines tied together so that a call that rings to the first line, rolls over to the second line in that group, if the first line is busy.If the second line is busy it rolls over to the third line ... http://www.telephony.soho-world.com/multiple-lines-in-a-hunt-group-or-hunting-lines-2/ MOH, AA, OGM - three completely different features, but often thought to be the same thing by most business phone users! So who are these three musketeers? Lets find out and get a better understanding.If you are already using a basic plain vanilla phone system then you will have at some ... http://www.telephony.soho-world.com/moh-aa-ogm-the-three-muskateers/ What is the difference between a Key Telephone System & a PBX Phone System ? With the introduction of VOIP or IP Phone Systems, this old-technology question is becoming all the more relevant in your final decision to purchase the right phone system today.I have cut and pasted the following text ... http://www.telephony.soho-world.com/key-telephone-vs-ip-pbx-phone-systems/ A business phone system....how many of us really think that this is the most important tool we need once we have outgrown our basement home office. After moving to a new commercial business space, the next best thing to have is a professional business phone system. You need to add ... http://www.telephony.soho-world.com/small-business-phone-system/ IP PBX Business Phone Systems do offer the flexibility of connecting your analog or landlines if you are still allergic to VOIP Lines. Which is great. Because an IP PBX offers lots more features and full scalability at the same entry level price for a similarly configured key or traditional phone ... http://www.telephony.soho-world.com/wireline-features-on-ip-pbx/ I thank one of my readers who left comments in one post regarding Asterisk phone software. The question posed to me was : " I have just discovered this new phone system software called the Asterisk, I have all analog phones and would like to know how I can connect these ... http://www.telephony.soho-world.com/asterisk-phone-software/ "Thank you for calling XYZ Company. If you want to reach our dial by name directory, please press the "#" key....Please enter the first three or four letters of the person's first or last name..." "No. I dont want to try that." - this is common reaction when I  come across ... http://www.telephony.soho-world.com/dial-by-name-directory-vs-staff-extension-listing-for-phone-systems/ An IP-PBX phone system can be hardware appliance, or virtually, as a software system running on a workstation computer. Due to the fact that a major part of IP PBX phone system functionality is software based, it is relatively inexpensive and easy to add features that can exist in only ... http://www.telephony.soho-world.com/ip-pbx-phone-system-free-long-distance/