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How does Yoofone VoIP save you money?
Firstly, when you call another Yoofone VoIP Line, e.g another Yoofone
customer or a subscriber on a service we connect to, the call is free. So your
internal company calls are now free.
Secondly, when you call another phone we charge very low rates. Just
1.25ppm for a UK call, 12p per min for a mobile call, with 35 countries world
wide at just 1.5ppm.
Thirdly, VoIP Services are cheaper to buy and maintain. Rather than
spending several thousand pounds on an office phone system, you just pay a low
monthly line rental.
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So how does it work?
Just like a modem converts digital signals from the PC into
analogue (voice) traffic for transmission over a phone line, a VoIP-enabled
phone or VoIP adaptor converts your voice into digital packets (using the
special SIP protocol) for transmission over the internet.
If you make a call to another VoIP phone, the opposite process
occurs at the other end, and your voice emerges intact from the ether. If you
make a call to a mobile or landline, Yoofone's gateway decodes the call and
sends it on as an ordinary voice call to the telephone exchange (PSTN).
Who can benefit from Yoofone's VoIP service?
Small to medium-sized businesses with several employees, and especially those
with distributed offices and teleworkers, are likely to get the maximum
benefit from our system, which has been carefully designed to provide all the
features that you will need in a professional package.
You can assign one or more external numbers that people can dial; these can be
mapped to a voice menu so they can chose an internal extension, or directly to
an internal extension, hunt group, or diversion to another number. Calls that
go unanswered can either be forwarded to another number, or a voicemail.
Individual users benefit if they make international calls to
family and friends, or would just like a second line at home without the
"hassle".
Why use Yoofone's VoIP service?
1. Your business/private telephone costs are dramatically
reduced. All calls to other VoIP phones are free, and calls to other
lines are very competetive.
2. Using our Centrex service, you get a get a fully featured
PBX system for your business for a very modest rental cost. With every VoIP
number, you get ten extensions on your virtual switchboard for your
members of staff in your office, or remote through a broadband connection. You
get all the facilities you expect: a voice menu, extensions for specific
people, hunt groups and call forwarding to name a few - all controlled through
our online control panel, as well as detailed call statistics and billing
information.
3: You can configure your system to give whatever impression you want to
customers. For example, if you have employees in other areas of the UK, on the
road or even abroad, you can provide them all extensions on the same number,
or their own numbers with the same area code as your head office. No-one need
know whether you have city centre offices, or a virtual office!
What you need
There are three main elements to the service:
1. A VoIP-enabled telephone. This can be an all-in-one handset, or a
normal handset plugged into an adaptor, or a softphone: a computer program
that uses a microphone and headphones attached to your computer to emulate a
real handset.
2. An internet connection. A leased line or ADSL/cable broadband is
ideal; dial-up (ISDN or ordinary telephone line) or a satellite internet
connection will likely cause a reduction in sound quality. A standard 256Kb
ADSL connection can accommodate 2-3 simultaneous calls; if you expect to need
more frequently, you may wish to upgrade to a higher-bandwidth package.
3. An account with Yoofone. This gives you a VoIP external number:
which is what other people dial to call you.
