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Wednesday, January 2, 2019

Without Voice Over IP Houston Businesses May Find Themselves At A Disadvantage

By Christine Ward


The modern business environment is tough and only those companies that can remain on the cutting edge of technology can hope to thrive. Poor communication systems, specifically, can seriously hamper the ability of a business to provide the levels of services that modern consumers have come to demand. In addition, those acting on behalf of their employers need to be mobile and flexible without losing touch with their customers and other role players. That is why, by switching to voice over IP Houston companies keep growing.

Internet based communication have been available for number of years but its initial popularity was hampered by the fact that it required fast and reliable internet connections. In the past, this was not always the case. Now, however, internet access is available everywhere, even in some of the most remote areas of the earth and, subsequently, VoIP popularity has soared sky high.

For the majority of companies moving to VoIP, the initial bait was the promise of huge savings on their communication bills. They do indeed save and some large companies have reported savings of more than half of the previous bills. Quickly, however, new users find out that VoIP offers many benefits that enhances productivity and that improve their ability to satisfy their clients. Improved customer satisfaction eventually reflect on the bottom line.

Arguably, the main benefit offered by VoIP is not the cost savings, but rather the fact that it frees users from their work stations. With traditional systems, one had to be at a desk with a telephone extension in order to make and receive calls. This meant that employees were chained to their work stations or risk missing important calls. With VoIP, users can communicate from anywhere, thus freed from having to be at a desk in order to receive an important call.

Another great benefit offered by VoIP is the fact that users can use a wide variety of devices when they wish to communicate. In fact, any device that can access the internet will do. In addition, it is not necessary to consistently use the same device. Regardless of where the user is or what device he uses, all his communications records are always available to him because it is stored in the cloud.

Savings on the monthly telephone bill is significant, but this is hardly the total sum of the savings to be had. VoIP systems need only one installation at a central location, while older systems required a switchboard at every location where the company needed communication facilities. Such installations are expensive and require constant maintenance.

Corporate employees have become used to features such as call holding, voice mail and call forwarding. VoIP users still have all these features available to them, but they quickly learn that there are many other features that enhances their ability to communicate and that increase their productivity. They have video conferencing, voice to fax, voice to email and even the capability of attaching data files and images to their clients.

The world moves fast and VoIP seems to be the latest and greatest communications solution. Its increasing popularity with large corporations certainly underwrites this theory. In the meantime, research continues and there is every indication that this technology will develop even further.




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