Do Those Old-Fashioned Phone Manners Still Make Sense?

Phone manners have changed some in the 150 years since Alexander Bell first spoke the words “Mr. Watson, come here! I want to see you!” into his leading-edge voice transmitter. Early telephone etiquette centered around social politeness, and also on the practicality that phone service was limited and should not be squandered! A few examples, taken from a list of early phone etiquette rules in a recent Mental Floss article: Don’t say hello! Because that greeting was implied and exchanging niceties was seen as tying up the phone lines unnecessarily. Instead, recipients were encouraged to state their phone number immediately as soon as they picked up

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A recent article from Fit Small Business tags Phone.com as one of the best—and definitely the most reasonable—alternatives to all of those spendier VoIP phone services. For many good reasons. A few pointers from the article: Phone.com costs less per month than well-known VoIP providers like RingCentral—around 50 percent less! We’re just sayin’. We offer the same basic features, and then some. With Phone.com, you can add advanced features as you need them, instead of paying for them all along. Even with all those fancy features added to your monthly bill, we still cost about 30 percent less. Phone.com offers the BEST international

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Phone manners have changed some in the 150 years since Alexander Bell first spoke the words “Mr. Watson, come here! I want to see you!” into his leading-edge voice transmitter. Early telephone etiquette centered around social politeness, and also on the practicality that phone service was limited and should not be squandered! A few examples, taken from a list of early phone etiquette rules in a recent Mental Floss article: Don’t say hello! Because that greeting was implied and exchanging niceties was seen as tying up the phone lines unnecessarily. Instead, recipients were encouraged to state their phone number immediately as soon as they picked up

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A recent article from Fit Small Business tags Phone.com as one of the best—and definitely the most reasonable—alternatives to all of those spendier VoIP phone services. For many good reasons. A few pointers from the article: Phone.com costs less per month than well-known VoIP providers like RingCentral—around 50 percent less! We’re just sayin’. We offer the same basic features, and then some. With Phone.com, you can add advanced features as you need them, instead of paying for them all along. Even with all those fancy features added to your monthly bill, we still cost about 30 percent less. Phone.com offers the BEST international

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