What Does the End of Phone Landlines Mean for Your Business?

On July 7, 2022
12:51 pm
Filed under Learning, Telecom News

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Many businesses are moving from traditional phone lines to cloud-based VoIP phone systems. For many business owners and their employees, that has meant an increase in overall convenience. Instead of using on-premises and personal phones, employees can use cloud-based phones to answer their communication needs. What does moving from a phone line to a VoIP system mean for your business? 1. You are no longer tied to a physical location for those calls, which means it’s easier to conduct business from anywhere. As of late 2021, around 25% of employees were still working remotely, and about 45% of workers

In the past, most businesses used landline phones for their primary communication. Today though, many are transitioning from analog landlines to VoIP phone systems. In fact, about 31% of businesses already use the VoIP phone system to unify communication platforms and reduce their phone bills. Residential use of landlines is also declining. According to Statista, 90 percent of US adults lived in households with landline phones in 2004 compared to less than 40 percent in 2020. Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) offers more potential at a lesser cost. As the name suggests, it relies on an internet connection to make

If your time is short Illegal robocalls are a nuisance and a vehicle for bad actors to commit fraud. The telecommunications industry has developed a framework called STIR/SHAKEN to verify the authenticity of caller ID numbers. The deadline to implement these protocols is June 30, 2021. Phone.com complies with these requirements. The change will have no customer impact except for hopefully reducing the number of illegally spoofed caller-IDs. Some carriers may also flag calls as “Trusted.” Background Illegal robocalls are a nuisance and a vehicle for bad actors to commit fraud. The recent surge in robocalls is due

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