by Iain Wicks | Jul 10, 2018 | Case Studies, ISDN, Phonesets, VoIP
“MP’s will lose their landlines as national copper shortage means suppliers can only offer Skype”. This was a headline article in the Telegraph printed on July 7th (2018) – illustrating just how much is NOT known about modern Voice over IP [VoIP] phone systems. I felt...
by Iain Wicks | Jul 2, 2018 | Phonesets, VoIP
Last week (in July 2018), a story broke that; “Accountancy giant PwC is doing away with landlines at office desks …” and using “more efficient” mobile phones. We ask – ‘Is this the start of a new trend?’ The story also told us that ‘landline usage...
by Iain Wicks | May 2, 2018 | Case Studies, DSL & Broadband, VoIP
Foxhall Solutions recently installed a Yeastar S20 VoIP phone system for a local Precision Engineering company (after BT got to their business park at long last and upgraded their cabinet to Fibre broadband). This allowed us to reduce the number of BT lines they have...
by Iain Wicks | Apr 9, 2018 | DSL & Broadband, ISDN, VoIP, Yeastar
With the end of ISDN just around the corner – you may be worried that you have to junk your Digital PBX – and all the extension phones that go with it – and buy a whole new VoIP telephone system! While there are very good reasons for doing so,...
by Iain Wicks | Feb 12, 2018 | DSL & Broadband, VoIP, Yeastar
The Yeastar S-Series VoIP PBX range includes four appliances capable of providing a wide range of features when connected to SIP Trunk services through broadband Internet. Each of Yeastar’s S-Series Appliances can terminate between 20 and 100 different SIP...
by Iain Wicks | Feb 7, 2018 | DSL & Broadband, VoIP, Yeastar
Most VoIP systems can be connected through Internet using SIP trunks, to allow ‘internal’ calling which by-passes the public network, and therefore won’t incur call costs. This feature makes it possible for a business to ‘multi-site network’ its Head Office...
by Iain Wicks | Jan 15, 2018 | Phonesets, VoIP, Yeastar
AutoCLIP Routes is far from a glamorous feature name, but it’s something that could be really useful for your business. You may have missed a call to your desk, but seen the ‘Caller ID’ number in the call history on your shiny new VoIP feature phone. You select...
by Iain Wicks | Dec 29, 2017 | Phonesets, Staff, VoIP
In May 2018 (and 10 months before Brexit!), the EU-wide ‘General Data Protection Regulations’ (GDPR) will come into effect. While most of us are thinking about protecting data storage on computer servers – some businesses will also have to consider their...
by Iain Wicks | Nov 26, 2017 | DSL & Broadband, VoIP
While we expect our phone line to work close to 100% of the time, most of us have experienced broadband outages cutting us off from the Internet. So – if we’re using broadband to carry our phone calls, what happens if our broadband fails? We get asked this...
by Iain Wicks | Sep 21, 2017 | 3CX Links:, Phonesets, VoIP, Yeastar
It’s great to be able to press a labelled key on your phone to make a call to a colleague in your office, or to an external mobile or land-line without having to find and dial a phone number. After all, names mean more to us than numbers do! … It’s...
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