To slash your office call costs immediately and drastically, simply switch to VOIP connectivity. It is easy and quick to switch to this widely used, reliable and proven method of telecommunications that delivers reliability, quality, freedom from the copper network and significantly reduced costs.

What is VOIP?

"Essentially, VoIP (voice over IP) is an Internet phone," explains Anthony Kinnear, Sales Director of Business System Analyst at Formula1 Technologies. "Instead of your voice being transmitted via the old circuit-switched landline copper networks, it is transmitted via the Internet. For this reason, it is also known as 'Internet calling'."

"Just like a landline, a VOIP system will allow your office staff to phone anywhere, anytime. You could, therefore, also call it a 'virtual' landline," says Kinnear. "However, unlike a landline, it will cost you much less, because VOIP calls do not attract copper network telephone charges, no matter where you phone to." 

How much cost-savings will a VOIP system deliver?

Switching to VOIP will deliver huge savings on all your calls. If you phone a landline number from your VOIP system, you will enjoy a 59% saving on current Telkom rates. The cost of calls to cell phone numbers will immediately be reduced by 48%, and the cost of phoning another VOIP number is slashed by 74% savings.

To make phone calls to other branches or remote offices on your company's VOIP network is free.   This means your company can make unlimited "internal phone calls", regardless of whether the extensions are at branches or remote offices in South Africa or anywhere in the world.  

A simplistic example will illustrate the possible Rand savings. Let's say a company makes 500 Telkom to Telkom calls per month and each call lasts on average 5 minutes. The cost of these calls from a Telkom landline would amount to R2,125 per month (500 calls x 5 minutes x .85c per minute Telkom rate). However, if these calls were made from using a VOIP solution at just .35c per minute, the cost would be slashed to just R875 per month, delivering a R15,000 savings over a year. Please visit http://f1tpabxsystems.co.za/voip-sip-phones/ to see the calculations.

The savings that will be achieved on calls to cellphone numbers and VOIP numbers on other networks will be even more pronounced, while the cost of calls to extensions at branches or satellite locations are eliminated entirely, regardless of their location.

This all adds up to some impressive savings available to your company immediately.   

More benefits of switching to VOIP

In addition to these significant cost savings, VOIP will also delivers other benefits.

All companies that have experienced the frustration of lost business and productivity resulting from the wide-spread copper theft problem in South Africa will appreciate the benefit of being freed from the dated copper landline network. 

Switching to VOIP also provides an opportunity to access faster Internet speeds through fibre, wireless, LTE and DSL fast Internet connection networks. Faster Internet speeds from the right connection network for your needs will deliver always-connectivity and increased productivity.   

How easy is the switch to VOIP?

Switching to VOIP is as simple as taking two steps. First, contact a VOIP service provider that is an expert in VOIP solutions and can provide a full and professional audit of your unique current and future office phone requirements. Based on this audit, recommendations can be made for the right system for your office, number of users and features required. This system can then be rented through a cost-cutting lease tailored to your exact needs, while still providing you with the flexibility to change or upgrade as you need to.

The second step is simply providing the go-ahead, where after a professional team supplies, installs, maintains and services the new VOIP office telephone system and provides tech support during the lease period, after which you can renew or upgrade to new equipment. 

"It's that easy!" concludes Kinnear. "We are very excited to bring businesses this quick and simple way to drastically reduce costs, while also improving productivity. We invite businesses in Gauteng to contact us for a friendly, free, no-obligation audit of their office phone requirements and our best recommendations on how to slash these costs while boosting productivity with the latest advancements in VOIP telecommunications and Internet connectivity."  

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About Formula 1 Technologies

Formula 1 Technologies Office Automation is part of the Formula 1 Technologies Group and has service centres throughout the country, with qualified specialists trained both locally and internationally. The complete and highly specialised office automation solutions provided to our clients realises our business philosophy and company slogan "First Time. Every Time. On Time." With over 3 decades of experience in the ever-evolving telecommunications, information technology and office automation industry, we have been recognised as the Number 1 OKI Distributor in South Africa, as the second biggest Toshiba Distributor in the country, as a Platinum Samsung Partner and as a selective Xerox reseller. We offer distribution lines for all office automation brands and are actively involved in Cheez Kidz, a non-profit organisation (NPO), associated with 5FM. 

For more information please visit http://f1tpabxsystems.co.za/voip-sip-phones/ or to arrange an interview, please contact:

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