One of the key issues in implementing VoIP is cost. Organizations that implemented VoIP did so because of its real or perceived cost savings over traditional telephony. In this tight economy, small businesses are facing limited budgets. With a tighter budget, it means re-evaluating every dime that is spent, and, for many businesses, communications is one of the essentials that should not be compromised.
For many businesses of all sizes, hosted VoIP is a sound choice. In a hosted model, the business only needs to make a nominal investment in telephone sets that are compatible with VoIP, and does not have to worry about operating, maintaining or upgrading their network to support VoIP.
Hosted PBX VoIP is also a good choice when a company or organization can’t be bothered with complicated phone systems. There is no longer any need to worry about scalability and upgrades due to capacity requirements. Managing line cards, trunk cards or space in your capacity is not required. Hosted PBX (News - Alert) providers handle capacity, performance and configuration of the total VoIP system.
The hosted model allows businesses added growth flexibility with solutions for every sized business. Not to mention the applications that VoIP provides, so much that Infonetics (News - Alert) Research noted that many organizations are adopting VoIP as a way to influence other forms of communication and predicts that the number of VoIP users will double between 2012 and 2016.
Choosing a hosted PBX VoIP provider is rather simple. Like we learned in elementary school, it’s about the five W’s: who, what, when, where and why? Be sure to do your research on who you’re choosing, what they are providing, when you want to install it, where it will be installed – or rather, in this case, hosted – and the why? Well, that’s rather simple. Hosted VoIP is reliable and continual.
With hosted VoIP, businesses harness the best of both worlds by being a cost effective way to get PBX-caliber features without the risk or challenges of managing their network.
Edited by Rachel Ramsey