Small business VoIP providers face a challenging year where competition in the small business space is heating up. Speakeasy, for example, has introduced a voice trunk replacement service called Integrated Voice, using a per-person pricing plan, available nationally and seemingly pitched to the sort of business that otherwise might buy a Cbeyond service.
Cable operators also are aggressively pitching their own small business VoIP services. Oddly enough, it is Comcast and Time Warner that arguably can claim better national name recognition that any of the other business VoIP specialists. And name recognition has been a problem up to this point, in the small business VoIP market.
The Best Buy-owned company is targeting smaller businesses with two to 12 phone lines that also want to keep their existing on-premises handsets and phone switch, and which also have a need for broadband Internet access.
Pricing begins at just $19.95 per line or user, with long distance charges of 2.9 cents a minute.
The phone line trunk replacement service combines voice and data services over a T-1 or high-speed DSL Internet connection, where bandwidth is dynamically allocated between voice and data. Speakeasy says the service will run over any existing broadband connection, but also sells the Speakeasy T1 and 15 Mbps Digital Subscriber Line service as well, the advantage being that Speakeasy can provide quality of service mechanisms if its own access is used.
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
More Competition in Small Business VoIP Market
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