Obi202 and business phone with 4 extensions
Shale:
Quote from: ptran504 on August 14, 2013, 11:36:54 pm
Thank you so much for your advice. Do you have any phones that you would recommend for my situation? I am kind of lost on if I should use a POTS or VOIP phone. I would prefer POTS since I wouldn't have to pay $200 for the OBIPLUS
OBiPlus has a free option. However I have not seen users extolling the virtues. Maybe those users never post positive things onto the forums. Such posting is fairly uncommon for business user in other things I have been involved with.
Looking at http://obihai.com/obiplus.php I see where you got "Lite" from! "The OBiPLUS 'Lite' Basic subscription is free and supports up to 4 users with support via the OBiTALK web forum. " The bulk of the posters here don't use OBiPLUS... Most of us use OBiTalk, but some program their OBis without outside website configuration.
One of the forums here is on OBiPLUS.
ptran504:
Sorry for the late reply.
1. We will need 4 extensions with 4 phones. Seems like each extension is pretty cheap so might as well. 3 would work too, but 4 would be awesome! Prefer to be able to have 3 to 4 people on the phone at one time.
2. Will have 1 number that we want to retain from 8x8 to transfer over.
3. Will be setting a POTS from TWC for a possible fax line (they made us get it). 8x8 or VOIP faxing has proven to be very bad so far. If it is better with other services then we don't mind doing digital faxing.
4. Intercom between phones would be very nice, but we communicate through AIM instant messenger. If anyone has any advice on this one to save bandwidth then we are also all ears.
5. What phones do I get to maximize features? We currently have 2 of these:
http://www.amazon.com/Polycom-SoundPoint-Power-Supply-Included/dp/B002VVZKTW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1377724144&sr=8-1&keywords=polycom+ip550
Thanks for the help. I have a Obi202 and Obi110 in the office right now but am paranoid about the switch. Our current internet is a crappy 3mb down/600kb up right now so I dont know if it can handle 4 phones. Will be going to 10D/2U.
I will take a look at the OBIPLUS forum also to see if I am more specific questions on that. Thank you.
RFord:
ptran504:
A lot of PBX like features can be gotten from VOIP providers such as Anveo, which would allow you to set up and call extensions within your office (for free), rollovers, etc. VOIP. ms also have such features. Why not call/email Anveo and tell them what you desire and they can point you to what the setup will need to be. No need for OBiPLUS, etc. and you could use your existing equipment.
ptran504:
Quote from: RFord on August 28, 2013, 10:12:37 pm
ptran504:
A lot of PBX like features can be gotten from VOIP providers such as envy, which would allow you to set up and call extensions within your office (for free), rollovers, etc. VOIP. ms also have such features. Why not call/email Anveo and tell them what you desire and they can point you to what the setup will need to be. No need for OBiPLUS, etc. and you could use your existing equipment.
Even if I were to use OBIPLUS it would be the free version since I do not need more than 4 phones. Anveo does work with Obi from my understanding. It seems like alot of people here like Anveo so I will definitely be having a chat with them. I just want to get our phone bill down. It is $85 for 2 lines right now.
QBZappy:
Quote from: ptran504 on August 28, 2013, 10:25:11 pm
I just want to get our phone bill down. It is $85 for 2 lines right now.
I always wonder why the telecoms offering POTS are not competing with voip service providers on price or features. It seems to me that if a telecom business wants to stay around as long as possible that they would feel the need to do this. For some reason they don't seem to feel the necessity. Without fully understanding the industry there is certainly more here than meets the eye. Capitalism doesn't work this way. When big business wants to move clients over to a new service there is usually an economic incentive. Make the less profitable service more expensive, then sooner or later most clients will gravitate to the cheaper service. POTS is highly regulated. It may be that the FCC (USA) and CRTC (Canada) obligate them to offer some minimum level of services (ie 911).
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