Monthly Archives: July 2008
ESPANOL OR FRANCAIS?
Sunday, July 27th, 2008 at 8:27 PM EST
SI. OUI. As we wrote in one of our previous postings: You only have one chance to make a first impression! Creating a professional greeting to welcome callers on your business phone number is an essential tool for success. Indeed, many of our customers are already using Phone.com professional recording services to create custom greetings, [...]
Enhancing Public Safety!
Thursday, July 24th, 2008 at 9:39 PM EST
By: Ari Rabban Voice over IP pioneer (and friend), Jeff Pulver wrote a great blog post yesterday hailing the New and Emerging Technologies 911 Improvement Act of 2008 signed by President Bush. Quoting Jeff, this law “finally provides VoIP providers with better tools for direct access to the 911 network and the liability relief necessary”. [...]
Using Phone.com Virtual Office as a PBX Backup
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 at 9:31 AM EST
By: Alon Cohen, EVP Phone.com I was recently invited to join an interesting forum for Small – Medium Business IT professionals in NY called “NY SMB IT Professionals Meetup Group” the group is organized by an entrepreneur called Mor Sela, and is meeting once a month at the PC Magazine offices in NYC. The July [...]
The Fine Print behind Unlimited Calling Plans
Monday, July 21st, 2008 at 9:46 AM EST
By: Alon Cohen – EVP/CTO at Phone.com Few of what seem to be smart consumers that I encountered asked me how any limited phone plan competes with other unlimited calling plans from so and so. I admit I thought I was smart when I got my first unlimited plan. The truth is that at first [...]
The Quality of VoIP Calls: Learn More about VoIP Phone Service
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 at 10:33 PM EST
By: Alon Cohen – EVP/CTO at Phone.com We got some interesting comments on our VoIP quality claims described in our post about “Why Consumers Like Our Home Phone Service?” where we claimed that VoIP quality is (ok… could be) even better than a land line! People also commented about the fact that having a reliable [...]
Why Consumers Like Our Home Phone Service?
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 at 10:29 PM EST
We in the Telecom industry, sometimes think that everyone knows what VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) based home services are and how they work but, surprise, surprise – it still is not the case. For those who are still not familiar with VoIP, when talking about home phone service lets clarify that we are not [...]
Going cold turkey on Land Lines
Thursday, July 10th, 2008 at 9:18 PM EST
By: Alon Cohen Though I have used VoIP for many years, we always had two “regular” home phone lines delivered by the “regular” phone company. One served as our main home phone line, the other as my fax line. But now I have gone cold turkey on both and am all digital. I have found [...]
“Featured Features”
Monday, July 7th, 2008 at 10:44 PM EST
Hello. We hope everyone had a great 4th of July weekend! Today we want to point out a new section on our website where we will dive in and share information about some of our “cool” features. Our first two “featured features” are: 1) Call Forwarding & Follow Me 2) Advantages of call “Queues” Please [...]