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The Benefits of Converged Broadband

By Broadband, Business Phone Systems, Connectivity, Converged Broadband, Data Services, Hosted Business Phone Systems, SIP Trunking, Voice Services
The Benefits of Converged Broadband Whilst early adoptors have already made the move to Converged Broadband, hundreds of thousands of businesses across the UK still rely on legacy telephone line services such as analogue, ISDN2 and ISDN30 lines as well as a separate broadband connection for Internet applications. These businesses have to maintain separate systems for their voice and Internet...
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New Release for Horizon Hosted Phone Systems

By Business Phone Systems, Business VoIP, Call Recording, Cloud Voice, Hosted Business Phone Systems, Voice Services
New release available now for Horizon Hosted Business Phone Systems The latest service release for Horizon, the Hosted Business Phone System from Columbus UK is available now.  This release focuses on an extensive update to the Advanced Call Recording to make search, call recording retrieval and bulk deletion much simpler and easier to use. The improvements include: Faster searches for...
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BT to switch off ISDN network in 2025.

By Business Phone Systems, Business VoIP, Cloud Voice, Hosted Business Phone Systems, SIP Trunking, Voice Services
BT to switch off ISDN network in 2025. In 2015 BT announced their intention to switch off the ISDN network by 2025, but what is replacing it and why? ISDN lines, the stalwart of UK offices across the country for decades have been in decline for some time and hundreds of thousands of ISDN lines are currently being replaced with...
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Hosted Call Centre solution launched by Columbus UK.

By Business Phone Systems, Columbus UK, Hosted Call Centre, Inbound Call Handling Services, Inbound Call Solutions, Voice Services

Columbus UK launches Hosted Call Centre solution for UK small and medium-sized businesses. As an add-on to their highly popular Hosted Business Phone System called Horizon, Columbus UK has launched a very powerful and scalable hosted call centre solution for UK businesses. The service is called Horizon Call Centre and it is the latest edition to their growing Business Voice…

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Hosted Business Phone Systems overtake traditional counterparts

By Business Phone Systems, Business VoIP, Cloud Voice, Hosted Business Phone Systems
Hosted Business Phone Systems overtake traditional counterparts The sale of hosted business phone systems has overtaken the sale of traditional systems at Columbus and these days, you cannot have failed to have noticed that most business applications and services for UK SMEs (Office 365, Dropbox and Salesforce for example) are delivered over a cloud infrastructure. The delivery model has accelerated...
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Hosted telecoms solutions bring agility to UK businesses

By Business Phone Systems, Business VoIP, Cloud Voice, Hosted Business Phone Systems, Voice Services

Hosted Business Phone Systems provide the flexibility and scalability businesses require today. Nowadays business is done at lightning pace and it can be difficult to keep up with your competitors without a greater degree of flexibility throughout your organisation which allows you to respond quickly to changes in your market place, adopt new technology and take advantage of new employment…

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10 ways to secure your business phone systems

By Business Phone Systems, Business VoIP, Cloud Voice, Hosted Business Phone Systems

Business Phone Systems – Security Best Practice If your business phone system is not managed properly and system security is weak, it could be vulnerable to hacking. Historically, there is a high risk of PBX fraud as a result of hacking attempts on business phone systems during holiday periods. This is due to business premises being left empty for longer…

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