Earl Rusnak Number Porting to VoIP International: What Actually Happens Keeping your existing phone numbers is the part of switching providers that scares everyone, and fairly so — a botched port means missed calls and angry customers. We've ported thousands of numbers in... Mar 19, 2024 VoIP International Blog Posts
Earl Rusnak From Landlines to VoIP: How Business Phones Actually Got Here Look at the phone on your desk. If it is plastic, has a coil cord, and traces back to a punch-down block in a wiring closet, you are running a 1980s system. There is nothing wrong with it. It works. B... Mar 8, 2024 VoIP International Blog Posts
Earl Rusnak Pro Mobile: Your Business Number on the Native Dialer, No App Every "business VoIP app" has the same problem: nobody opens it. People answer their personal cell line, not the app. Outbound calls go from the personal number because the app is one tap too many. Th... Mar 3, 2024 VoIP International Blog Posts
Earl Rusnak Pro Mobile for Healthcare: On-Call Coverage Without Two Phones Most clinical staff are still carrying two phones, or worse, giving out personal cell numbers because the office phone won't follow them out the door. That's how missed calls happen, how protected hea... Mar 2, 2024 VoIP International Blog Posts
Earl Rusnak What a VoIP Conference Phone Actually Does (And Which One to Buy) A conference phone is not a desk phone with a louder speaker. It is a microphone array engineered to pick up voices around a table without the headphone-jack hiss and table-tap noise of a laptop on sp... Mar 1, 2024 VoIP International Blog Posts
Earl Rusnak Leasing vs Buying Business Phones: How to Decide Without Overpaying Buying desk phones up front looks expensive on a spreadsheet. Leasing looks expensive once you add up 36 months of payments. The right answer depends on how long your phones will stay current, how pre... Feb 27, 2024 VoIP International Blog Posts
Earl Rusnak Dual-WAN and Multi-WAN Routers for VoIP: When You Need One Most VoIP problems we troubleshoot aren't VoIP problems — they're internet problems. A flaky cable line, a noisy upstream, an ISP doing maintenance at 2 AM. If your business runs on phones, a single i... Feb 22, 2024 VoIP International Blog Posts
Earl Rusnak Hurricane-Proof Phones: Disaster Recovery for Florida Businesses We are headquartered in Ocoee. We have run customer phone systems through Irma, Ian, Idalia, Milton, and a handful of smaller storms. Hurricane disaster recovery for a Central Florida business phone s... Feb 5, 2024 VoIP International Blog Posts
Earl Rusnak Mobile and Remote Work on VoIP: What Actually Changes If your team has been remote or hybrid for any length of time, you already know the old desk-phone setup does not fit. People work from home offices, customer sites, hotel rooms, and airports. The job... Jan 24, 2024 VoIP International Blog Posts
Earl Rusnak Mobile-First Business Phones: What the Cavell Data Says A Cavell Group survey of over 800 US IT and business decision-makers found that 99% are planning to move away from desk-phone-only setups toward mobile or hybrid mobile-first deployments. The story un... Jan 22, 2024 VoIP International Blog Posts
Earl Rusnak International Phone Numbers: When Your Business Actually Needs One Anyone selling you on international phone numbers will tell you they unlock global markets. That is half true. An international number is a useful prop when foreign prospects look at your contact page... Jan 17, 2024 VoIP International Blog Posts
Earl Rusnak VoIP for Call Centers: What Actually Earns Its Keep Call centers do not buy VoIP for cost savings anymore. The savings are real, but they are not the reason. The reason is that a hosted platform gives you queue logic, recording, real-time dashboards, a... Nov 28, 2023 VoIP International Blog Posts