Talk is cheap VoIP on a budget
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Traditional telephony is on its way out. It’s expensive and inflexible, is liable to tie you to a contract that runs for longer than you want, and getting set up means waiting around for days on end for an engineer to come and plumb you in.
The logical alternative is Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). It’s far more versatile, and you can get up and running almost instantly. If you haven’t yet made the jump, you will also be pleased to hear that VoIP is something that even the smallest business can easily afford.
The VoIP advantage
The first thing you need for VoIP is a decent internet connection – but that doesn’t necessarily mean you need a dedicated, superfast line. According to leading VoIP provider Vonage, a one-hour VoIP call consumes less bandwidth than an hour spent browsing the web. So if you reckon you could double your workforce without upgrading your broadband, that theoretically means you have enough bandwidth to roll out VoIP to every member of your current team.
Of course, this is just a rule of thumb: in practice there are a number of variables that determine how
