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Many Australian companies have been keen to invest on VoIP phone system but not all are convinced with the technology. A great number of business owners are still skeptical and a little bit worried to make the switch to VoIP phone systems because the technology is relatively new to the communications industry when compared to the well established analog telephone lines.

Doing a search for VoIP benefits would reveal thousands of results. But generally all these can be summarized into 3 benefits that will give you an idea why you should switch to VoIP phone systems.

1. Setup and monthly fees - Obviously savings will be on top of the list. Being VoIP hardware are all optional and you can literally run the system in a virtual setting or through software that you install into an existing computer of yours. This will undoubtedly reduce your switch cost. On average you can get a system with 3 phones running in just less than $100 dollars. However the biggest chunk of savings would come from the monthly fees. being VoIP call rates are far less than what you are used to paying your telco. The average rate to mobiles are around 20 cents per minute compared to the 80 cents per minute of the latter.

2. Mobility - Since the system is not tied up to any hardware or a dedicated physical lines you can literally take the phones anywhere you go. Say for an instance, IP phone users can take home the handsets home if they need to work from home for a couple days. All they need to do is plug it into their home Internet connection and the phone will work like it never left the office. PC based user can do the same, if you can bring your laptop then you can bring your phone. You can also install multiple phones to all your computers and just log in accordingly.

To further extend the mobility and convenience the technology offers applications for various smartphones and tablets has been developed so you can use VoIP on your mobile anywhere you are provided that you connect to Wi-Fi, 3G or 4G services.

3. Features - One of the determining factors in a phone system are the features. VoIP is known for offering flexible and innovative features to the market. Before you can only have a good set of features if you are willing to spend a fortune but today VoIP offers all the features of traditional PBX systems in a more affordable manner on top of features that is unique to the technology like software integration, multiple business integration and website integration.

4. Flexibility - Last but not the least is the level of flexibility the system offers. Since you are no longer restricted by the hardware that you have on site the system can easily be adapt to how you run your business without spending a dollar in upgrading the system. So if you need more phones add more extensions, if you need more lines then secure one, if you no to minimize costs even further then scale the system down without any costs.




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