Hosted Business VoIP Services: Recession is Perfect Time to Switch

In the midst of a recession, cutting the fat is now more important than ever for businesses everywhere. Business VoIP Services allow companies to combine two critical aspects of their daily operation through integrating voice and data services on the same network. By utilizing a high-speed internet connection, VoIP offers innovative, practical, and perhaps more importantly, inexpensive features for their users.


Hybrid features of Business VoIP can dramatically improve efficiency and communication ease within the office. Voice-to-Email allows for voicemail to be sent to an email address of one's choosing. This feature of Business VoIP increases productivity as users can check their messages easily with any computer connected to the Internet.

VoIP uses the data network (LAN) and Internet connection to operate the telephone system. The inherent efficiency benefits of switching to a converged voice and data network coupled with the better value that VoIP providers offer make a recession the perfect time to switch to a VoIP service. Even further cost savings are possible since a company is able to eliminate cabling, contractor expenditures, and space previously dedicated to supporting a separate phone network.

Accessing email via phones like the Blackberry has created a virtual office that can extend anywhere a cell phone is taken. VoIP expands this revolution in dramatic new ways. VoIP users can download an application to their mobile phones that allows them to access their office phone network as if it was their desk phone.Users can place and receive phone calls from their cell phones while appearing as if they are in the office- the caller ID will show the employee's office phone number, rather than their private mobile phone number. Furthermore, the office phone network is accessed via the Smartphone's Wi-Fi connection so calls made this way from a cell phone are not using the cellular plan's minutes, and are instead part of the much less expensive Business VoIP plan.

If Business VoIP services are this efficient and inexpensive, then why are companies hesitating to switch? It might be because on-premise VoIP services have upfront cost requirements which may make some businesses uncomfortable. It takes a company that is mindful of the big picture to realize that the cost savings and increases in efficiency are too good to pass up.

Hosted Business VoIP services, like OnSIP by Junction Networks (News - Alert), deliver an even stronger value proposition. This platform requires almost no upfront investment, and features all the previously mentioned benefits such as cost savings, and efficiency increases which would help any business weather this economic storm.