Small Business Phone Systems

By J.B. Malik, Editor-In-Chief

(If you haven’t yet, first read my full review of RingCentral here.)

Internet companies and online retailers are steadily adopting small business phone systems (Virtual PBXs in geek-speak) like RingCentral.  You can read these companies’ impression of RingCentral’s service (and of other Virtual PBX vendors) here.

Their fast adherence is no surprise, as Virtual PBXs’ cost/benefit ratio (from $9.95/mo for virtually everything you need in a phone system) mirrors that of other services those Internet companies likely also purchase. Think:

Web hosting: No Equipment, low monthly fee

Internet access: Minimal equipment, low monthly fee

Internet faxing: No Equipment, low monthly fee

Online support: No Equipment, no software, low monthly fee

HR Management solutions: No software, low monthly fee

See a pattern? Like other critical business functions, telephone systems are moving away from the “in-house, high initial capital spend” to outsourced, “software/systems as a service” model.

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