What are the benefits of BT Office Communicator?
Posted 22 January 2008 at 8:58AM by Martin Faux in Email and communications
Getting to grips with new business technologies can mean costly investments in equipment and training, but can VoIP innovation actually cut business costs?
Voice over Internet Protocol does seem to have all the answers. Forget costly international call charges and connection problems, this new breed of telecoms will soon become top of the business agenda and for good reason. Increasing flexibility and productivity is not to be laughed at, wherever you are - in an office, at home, or even via a Wi-Fi connection somewhere overseas you can be contacted on one number.
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2. At January 23, 2008 9:24 AM, James Phillips wrote:
I'm afraid that when it comes to VOIP, Skype have stolen a march on all other providers. Its cheaper for a start (and much cheaper than BT who seem to charge a premium for everything)and their service offering is excellent. The future is indeed through this new technology with so much potential for development, but there's no need to pay through the nose for it.
3. At January 23, 2008 12:58 PM, Ade wrote:
Why dont you try the product Dark Djinn, and find out for yourself.
4. At January 26, 2008 10:03 AM, James wrote:
BEWARE OF THE HIDDEN COSTS - LOOK AT THE WHOLE PICTURE.
One large PLC found that it was going to cost them £200,000 plus to change over to new technology and new equipment to save a few hundred pounds a year - Never mind the disruption , training costs and time lost in the change over.
Don't be taken in and look at the small print - If you found you did not like it, how much would it cost you to get out of the new contract with BT ?
James - Retired Senior Lecturer in Systems Analysis and Design
5. At January 28, 2008 11:10 AM, anjanesh wrote:
if a 'large plc ' found out that it was going to cost 200k ti switch to VOIP then they would not continue to be a 'large plc' for long.
Voip and pc based voip is relatively easy to migrate for small business and plenty of services are non contract based. with skype and other messaging services you have free pc to pc voip with managed VOIP service providers like BT or Vonage you have the added flexibility of cheaper phone calls (25p per hour to mobile ) without being tied into a location.
I cannot see where the cataclysmic disruptions or training costs etc come into picture in this scenario.
6. At January 30, 2008 4:50 PM, James wrote:
VOIP - Had it when it first came out many months ago.
I dropped it very quickly.
If PC or Server or Broadband fails - NO VOIP COMMUNICATION.
Nice idea, but not very usefull.
James
7. At January 31, 2008 12:03 PM, anjanesh wrote:
while we are discussing VOIP technology then few benefits
-unlimited local calls
-unlimited calls to any country in Europe
-voicemail to email
-single number ;use anywhere facilitycosts less to call US on my voip line than to call a 'national rate 'UK number.
I can have numbers representing any dialling code in UK and some overseas countries .
dropped my traditional landline. Do not use one anymore.
End of the day whole of UK will be migrated to 21CN which will eventually send Voice over IP from the local nodes - no more telephone exchanges . Only copper line will be between the node and the premises .
The IP protocol based future is all too clear for us to see - more easy to manage;better redundancy and efficient backhaul infrastructure.
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1. At January 22, 2008 4:06 PM, Dark Djinn wrote: