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April showers bring May flowers, and this time of the year can only mean one thing: spring cleaning.

Spring is the season to pack up the sweaters, pull up the blinds and start fresh. The annual spring cleaning isn’t just limited to your home or closets though – it can also be a great time for businesses to review their telecom systems.

An AireSpring (News - Alert) blog post gave some tips on how to dust away the cobwebs from a company telecom system. First on the list is to check your rates. It’s important to start with understanding how much you’re paying and exploring what your alternative options are. With IP communications taking over companies large and small, service providers are offering competitive prices and rates. Along these lines is also checking your bandwidth usage. With AireSpring, users can affordably add more bandwidth with options such as Ethernet over Copper.

Managing separate phone and Internet services can lead to extra and unnecessary costs. Bundling data and voice services is a cost-effective option that can be done with integrated T1 or cloud hosted PBX (News - Alert).

Another element of a business phone system is the number of extensions. As employees come and go, we tend to forget to update their extensions and make sure they are up to date. This is easy with cloud hosted IP PBX, where employees can simply take their phone with them to a new desk and retain their number, contacts and settings.

If you haven’t thought about disaster recovery plans before, now is absolutely the time to do so. Backups and cloud-based phone systems can help ensure business continuity in the event of an emergency, and it’s better to be prepared than realizing you need a recovery plan afterwards.

AireSpring’s AirePBX is a cloud hosted PBX that enables users to direct calls to their desk, home, coworker or even a cell phone. It is offered over AireSpring’s IP backbone and provides a rich set of features and competitive rates.

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