New VoIP solution aimed at SMEs
Until now local SMEs that wanted to capitalise on the cost savings offered by VoIP have had to make do with consumer solutions like Skype, which make use of the public Internet.
Since February 2005, corporate quality VoIP has only been a viable option to companies with phone bills of R8 000 and above, because the fundamental technical requirement is a diginet line.
The costs of installing and maintaining this connectivity represent the billing threshold below which it is not financially viable for service providers or their customers to migrate to VoIP.
"Our development team has ensured that we have a few offers, which are positioned incredibly close to this threshold, so that more companies can get ‘on ‘Net’ because, as more businesses do, the threshold can reduce even further," says Tim Wyatt-Gunning, joint CEO of Storm.
"Currently, even with these new offerings, VoIP may not be the right solution for every business. Until there are enough local companies using VoIP to ensure that the majority of local calls are between VoIP users, which will reduce the call costs to a negligible amount, it is only that those whose international, national and inter-branch calls make up a fair amount of the bill feel the cost benefits in the short term," says Wyatt-Gunning.
The introduction of the 3 000-minute and 6 000-minutes packages is part of Storm’s strategy to increase the number of local companies using VoIP, which aims to further increase the accessibility of the technology to even smaller businesses.
Wyatt-Gunning says: "The more businesses that use this technology, the more cost savings will be passed on to all users, and the lower the entry level can become."
Source: http://www.ictworld.co.za
Loading ...