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Changing Business Telco
by Andrew McCaskey
Small Business Telco Definition
The definition of small business telephone service is changing, and changing quickly. For sole practitioners, the combination of Google Voice, a cell phone and Skype pretty quickly eliminate the need for a landline connection. Like many entrepreneurs, I use Skype for almost all of my out bound calls. The convenience and quality – especially on the MacBookPro beats any speakerphone combo. With colleagues and vendors I often run on Video as well – even if they don’t have the webcam capability, it speeds the interaction and adds another dimension to the relationship.
Even with the addition of partners, a small company can flexibly move forward without Verizon or local telco “business line” support. And with services like Grasshopper augment their telecom presence on a flexible, month to month basis.
It’s hard to beat the flexibility of such new offerings with any Verizon package, or the Packet8 Asterisk system. Too much overhead, too much telephone speak.
I expect great things from Google. With the purchase of Gizmo5 the SIP client by Google, there is now an end to end solution to the public switched network that can exist totally within GoogleTalk/GoogleVoice/Gizmo. And they did not even have to get a new service name beginning with the letter G..
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