Convergia, a leading business VoIP service provider to both the U.S. and Canada, has just announced that the company's Hosted PBX (News - Alert) phone systems now offer Local Area Code Presence. This not only allows businesses to use their local area code to appeal to residents, but it also allows subscriber businesses to have separate area codes for each of their different phone lines. Traditional phone service can't match this functionality, yet Convergia's VoIP phone systems are often half the price as a similar plan would be with a POTS phone line.

“Convergia's hosted IP PBX business phone systems enable small businesses to easily and affordably enjoy the benefits of having local area phone numbers in multiple cities,” said Convergia's President Alejandro Bitar. “The PBX telephone technology offered through Convergia equips small businesses in presenting a perceived local presence in many different cities, while at the same time making it cheaper and easier for customers to call the business without incurring long distance fees. Every phone number can be individually configured with specific call handling instructions.”

Having a local area code for another region has several marked benefits for a business. For starters, it means that customers can call without any fear of paying long-distance calling fees for making a phone call, removing any hesitation that may have been present. It also gives customers the impression that your company has a local call center in their area, leading them to think that the company has their region's best interests in mind.

Convergia's VoIP phone service routes calls through the Internet and a Hosted PBX server, which gives businesses all the features associated with business-class phone systems with none of the equipment. Hosted PBX servers mean that businesses only pay per phone line, and the fact that the telephone information is sent through the Internet means that the costs can be lowered substantially.