Simple Telecom is pleased to announce it now offers VoIP for Australian business customers. The world of VoIP is quite overwhelming, so as you would expect from Simple Telecom we are here to help guide you through the mine field that is the Australian VoIP services with a business grade VoIP solutions for your business.
The Technology that underpins VoIP (and the name of it) implies its greatest strength and greatest weakness – it depends on the internet. While an alternative solution is suggested if you have poor internet, this reliance can also be a strength for many customers, providing the flexibility of having a low cost and high quality business grade VoIP service available wherever they have internet.
Comparing VoIP to a regular landline is like comparing a Tesla to a F150 truck. They really are in different categories, even though at a basic level they do the same thing. Landline technology dates back over 100 years, requires physical copper, is not portable, but it generally provides a consistent service over great distances. The VoIP line is portable, runs on top of internet services, doesn’t require any special hardware, and saves you on the monthly service and equipment charges.
VoIP is an acronym for Voice over Internet Protocol. At its most basic level, it is a telephone service that runs through your computer, VoIP phone or Mobile phone. It uses your internet connection to digitally send your call through to an exchange (which Simple Telecom provides – business grade VoIP), and then routes your call through to the destination. This works both ways – when someone is trying to call you via your VoIP services, it will route through the Simple Telecom server and then connect to your registered device.
With VoIP, your business is able to make and receive calls through a VoIP service. A VoIP provider such as Simple Telecom will set up a special hosted PBX (a business telephone system) for small and medium businesses, which will allow you to make local and national calls, as well as calls to mobile phones. VoIP telephone calls are digitised by the software or phone you use in order to register your VoIP service provider, and the call is then routed as required.
Setting up VoIP for your business is straight forward with Simple Telecom – get in touch to find out more.
Simple Telecom VoIP systems will give you the following benefits when it comes to business communications:
VoIP can provide great security – depending on the provider.
Simple Telecom is proud to provide the highest level security of any Australian VoIP provider. Simple Telecom’s hosted PBX is restricted to Australian IP addresses only. This means you don’t have to worry about 98% of the internet trying to hack your VoIP service. Secondary to this, we require registering the IP address of your device if you make more than 2 outbound phone calls through our private network.
Many VoIP services (such as the one from Simple Telecom (Hosted PBX)) have some great features that you get included for free, such as:
• Call Recording
• Keypress Menu
• Voice To Email
• Online management
• Managed Services
• Number portability (port in and port out)
Simple Telecom offers some of the most competitive rates for VoIP services in Australia. You can even port your number into Simple Telecom from you existing fixed line or other VoIP provider at no charge.
If you are running your business from Home, you should seriously consider the Simple Telecom Hosted PBX service. Have you got really good internet at home? (Good internet is any type of Fibre or NBN FTTP).
Assuming you have good internet, then VoIP will save you a stack of cash over having a copper line. It will also give you more flexibility to manage your work/life balance. You can turn off your VoIP when you are offline (or connect it to a voice to email).
If you choose to run your business from the mobile, then once your customers have your number they will call you and text you whenever they want.
Other VoIP providers will tell you saving your hard earned cash is the biggest reason to move to VoIP. While this is true, the real reason is to create flexibility in how you answer your calls.
This boils down to the features on offer from the Hosted PBX service. Simple Telecom has listed the amazing features we include for free with our service.
We will save you some cash too, but really, that’s just a bonus. Free features are way more important!
This is probably the most common question we get from people who are setting up VoIP for the first time. Lucky you are talking to the telco who loves making things Simple.
The answer is, it is up to you and/or your staff.
You can easily use some free VoIP software on your computer to make and receive calls with our business VoIP service.
You can easily set up a VoIP phone (physical handset) on your desk and make and receive calls with that.
You can also just as easily set up some VoIP software on your mobile (generally you’ll want to pay for this) to make and receive VoIP calls on your mobile.
So, what do you prefer for your business grade IP telephony? Reusing your existing device? Using your computer? Having a physical phone on your office desk? Up to you.
Yes, it is easy. For example, setting up the Simple Telecom service involves setting five settings in your preferred VoIP device/software.
Server address
Server port
Username
Password
Register Expiry
Normally, these five settings are very obvious and are frequently the first settings you’ll get prompted to enter when setting up your device.
If you have any questions, get in touch with the Simple Telecom pros – we will most likely be able to help you over the phone on the spot.
Simple Telecom have 2 plans as a service provider, both excellent value. $5 per month + calls, or $29 per month inc calls (local/national calls and mobile calls only) .
Price is critical. Both these plans offer exception value for VoIP solutions.
Local Aussie support, private network and service is unbeatable. No call queues, no call centre, just professional VoIP solutions for your business VoIP service.
Grab a trial account and test out the quality of the Simple Telecom service. This is a cost effective method of checking we have the same quality as copper service and our phone numbers work as you would expect for your small business.
Two plans is variety right? Let’s just keep things Simple. Two options.
One to save cash and just do a few calls per month, and another that gives you peace of mind in knowing that your call costs aren’t going to surprise you as some other service provider might.
We have mentioned our great features already, right? Scroll up, you’ll see the list of great features that will increase productivity. We even have some advanced features which we keep secret as it just delivers great value – get in touch to find out more.
Simple Telecom has detailed reporting for your full range of calls both inbound and outbound. We keep a log of the calls that come in via sip trunking including mobile numbers. This is normally a feature large businesses rely on. The comprehensive range of features and reporting detail make this VoIP offer hard to ignore, especially when you consider the free calls between services (and potentially offices). The reporting is available via the customer portal from Simple Telecom, your service provider, where you can also configure your cloud hosted PBX.
For up to date pricing, please refer to our primary VoIP detail on the Simple Telecom website.
The biggest benefit of VoIP is the ability to make use of the VoIP technology from anywhere in the world to make and receive calls. This means you can have a truly portable business phone system solution from anywhere in the world.
Yes you certainly can use your existing “regular phone”. We assume you mean a copper phone.
To use this device, you can purchase an ATA. You plug your regular phone into this device and configure this device with the specific settings as mentioned previously to integrate with the phone systems. This device will translate the call into VoIP for you.
Unfortunately, VoIP cannot work without internet connectivity. We do have redundancy options for you as part of your VoIP solutions to consider (we highly recommend this).
Generally, after any incoming call configuration discussion, we put the customers mobile in as the backup call route so that if there is an internet or power failure in the office, the calls will flow through to the mobile temporarily.
In this day and age, this question is redundant. You’ll be hard pressed to find anywhere in Australia that you want to setup a business, where you can even still get a landline. With NBN rollout over the past 10 years, IP telephony is the reality. You should keep the same phone number with whatever system integration you go for.
The real question is: Is VoIP cheaper than a mobile? The answer is yes. Cloud services and the benefits and features are massive – refer to the above discussion points to understand why in detail.
We have mentioned our great features already, right? Scroll up, you’ll see the list of great features that will increase productivity. We even have some advanced features which we keep secret as it just delivers great value – get in touch to find out more.
Simple Telecom has detailed reporting for your full range of calls both inbound and outbound. We keep a log of the calls that come in via sip trunking including mobile numbers. This is normally a feature large businesses rely on. The comprehensive range of features and reporting detail make this VoIP offer hard to ignore, especially when you consider the free calls between services (and potentially offices). The reporting is available via the customer portal from Simple Telecom, your service provider, where you can also configure your cloud hosted PBX.
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