Face Off: Old school PBX vs hosted VOIP PBX with Vocalocity


VoIP is revolutionizing the way small businesses run and save money. Take a look at how a new hosted VoIP PBX blows away phone equipment housed on site. Please visit http://www.vocalocity.com for more info!

Tagged as: Old School, Phone Equipment, Small Businesses, Voip Pbx, Voip Phone

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kevnich2 February 28, 2009 at 9:35 am

My small family business used to use a single POTS line for voice and another one for faxing. We switched to vocalocity approximately 3 months ago and it works exactly as advertised. We have 2 locations both with cable internet. Voice quality is better than the POTS line, we have 4 independent lines and save approx $100/monthly. For most SMB’s, purchasing & maintaining an in-house PBX just isn’t realistic. Vocalocity does work very well, and so far no downtime.

rantingkitten March 2, 2009 at 3:45 am

And do you think the average five-person mortgage business has the tech savvy to pull that off, plus maintain it? Even if they could they’d still have to pay monthly for the trunking so what’s your point?

veeros March 3, 2009 at 2:57 pm

Bogus – Sure, this MIGHT be true if you are using POTS.

True VoIP though? I Don’t think so.

The entire SYSTEM – phones and otherwise – didn’t even cost $10K, and that’s with 12 Aastra DeCT devices and their base stations – one an outdoor mount.

My PBX cost $1200 – it’s a rack mount 2U BEAST that serves up DNS and a firewall as well – so i got 3 systems for the price of one using FreePBX and CentOS. Colo’d too.

23 line PRI for $422/mo can’t be beat either.

jgali80 March 6, 2009 at 4:29 pm

Is this some kind of joke. If this is the future of high tech marketing pitches, we are all in big trouble.

ResidentG33k March 8, 2009 at 3:51 am

You sir must be on *****. Anyone can build a PBX for UNDER $100… All they need is a basic P3 Computer. Theres many how to’s to do that. You’re just trying to get people to be gullible and buy your equipment. PBX’s are easy to setup and use Linux! DONT BE FOOLED, You can do it yourself.

chatterwatcher33 March 11, 2009 at 9:48 am

Have to say, maybe i’m a tech idiot, but I thought that this was a helpful little intro to VoIP and I got a lot out of it. Some people (like me) really do need to be started off with the basics. In other news, I’m pretty happy with the service, too.

missione4 March 14, 2009 at 9:21 pm

I disagree, I can’t afford an in-house PBX for only six “lines”. It makes no sense whatsoever, you don’t pay for maintenance and you don’t have to buy new equipment when new features are released, consider that.

Noisycowonline March 16, 2009 at 12:04 pm

Junk – shows that if you can draw a cloud and say the word ‘VOIP’ there will be a sucker ready with his checkbook.

obtsystems March 16, 2009 at 9:29 pm

10-20k for 5 phones. thats how high it would have to be to make his system look cheaper.

I love the internet cloud, shows it is as reliable as the weather.and how is he pluging into that cloud, maybe he has wireless routers at every phone or could he be using those nasty wires to a hub in the broom closet

bewarethedecks March 20, 2009 at 2:26 am

Connecting remote offices by using a hosted VoIP service delivered over a private T1 connection is one thing.

Connecting to the public Internet via DSL or a cable modem and using it to carry all voice services is something else.

metelcom March 21, 2009 at 12:04 pm

TDM phone system with 6-10 phones $2,500 you own forever

Vocalocity $39.99/month x 10 phones x 12 months $4,798.80

Twice the cost of a regular phone system just the first year and if rates increase you will be paying that every year.

VoIP = VERY BAD BUSINESS DECISION

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