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If you’re trying to figure out what it costs to replace a business phone system, you’ve probably already noticed that getting a straight answer isn’t easy. You’ll find companies advertising VoIP phones for $20 or $30 per
Read article ↗If you’ve had business phone trouble for any length of time, you’ve probably been stuck in this exact situation. Calls are dropping. Maybe inbound calls are failing. Maybe customers say the main number rings forever. May
Read article ↗If you’re trying to budget a structured cabling project, one of the first questions is usually pretty simple: How much is this actually going to cost? Unfortunately, cabling is one of those trades where giving a price wi
Read article ↗I’ve worked around business phone systems long enough to remember when you could walk into an office, look at the phone on the receptionist’s desk and have a pretty good idea of what you were going to find when you got b
Read article ↗When businesses start talking about replacing an old PBX with VoIP, most of the conversation naturally revolves around equipment. What phones are we getting? Will they have color displays? Can employees use an app? How d
Read article ↗Walk into an older commercial building, lift a ceiling tile, and there’s a good chance you’re looking at a history lesson. CAT5 from an old network. Telephone cable from a PBX that disappeared years ago. Coax that once f
Read article ↗Walk into the back room of almost any established business and there is a good chance you will find technology that nobody quite knows what to do with. Old desk phones stacked in boxes. A phone system that was removed du
Read article ↗For years, the business phone system was something companies rarely thought about until it stopped working. A PBX sat in a closet or equipment room, desk phones sat on desks, and as long as employees could make and recei
Read article ↗There is a tendency in technology to assume that old equipment needs to be replaced simply because something newer exists. Business phone systems are a good example. We still walk into facilities running PBX systems that
Read article ↗If you’re planning a new office, remodeling an existing facility, adding workstations, upgrading your network, or replacing old cabling, one of the first questions you’re probably going to ask is simple: How much is this
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