The benefits of using VoIP are tremendous! The biggest benefit for most companies is the significant savings when switching from traditional phone service to VoIP service. VoIP providers offer a wide range of phone service plans to accommodate your specific needs and you can choose additional features as well. International calling rates are also lower on VoIP service. Many small business owners assume that VoIP service is too complicated and expensive; however VoIP service providers offer monthly plans for as low as $50 per month.
VoIP technology can also help businesses be more flexible and productive. Phone numbers become portable using VoIP allowing employees to work from multiple locations & still be reached at the same phone number. Employees can work from their own office, a client’s office, their home office or any other location needed as long as a properly configured network is in place at those locations. They can even use their VoIP phone numbers with softphones on their laptops or other devices.
VoIP protocols also can make collaboration with email, instant messaging and social networking applications possible as well. Additionally, businesses that would like to appear to be in a specific area (on caller ID) can utilize VoIP phone numbers from anywhere in the world with or without being physically located in that area. Finally, most VoIP phone service comes with an array of features including Find-Me-Follow-Me (FMFM), selective call forwarding, personalized ring tones and simultaneous ringing on multiple phones (even when the VoIP phones are in different locations).
Small and medium size businesses in the Vancouver, WA and Portland, OR areas can benefit greatly from state of the art VoIP service today. It’s not just for big companies any more. Many VoIP service providers (including America’s Phone Guys!) can create personalized service plans to partially or completely meet your business communication needs.