Top 5: Best Small Business Phone Systems for 10 employees or less
For businesses of any size, including yours. Whether you’re opening a new office and need phones or you're planning to update your existing phone system, we have done the research and tested over 30 small business phone systems to prepare the list of our Top 5 most...
Best Phone System for Law Offices
For lawyers, especially for those billing in six-minute increments, time is money. Investing in a business communications solution that maximizes efficiency and productivity is the key to maximizing time. In addition, a law firm’s reputation is vital to its success...
Create a Day/Night button with status light in Switchvox
Setting up a Day/Night button on a Switchvox Digium receptionist phone may initially seem like an impossibly complicated task. Searching through Google or even Digium's own knowledge base doesn't seem to have a clear answer and, unfortunately, most people will give...
The day my Nortel Norstar Phone System died
It was in 2009 that Avaya acquired Nortel. When Nortel went bankrupt, it left customers stranded and scared. It has become increasingly difficult to find replacement parts and trained technicians for the Nortel Norstar phone system as many of the...
Toshiba no longer supporting Business Phone Systems
The recent announcement by Toshiba that it is shutting down its Telecommunications System Division took customers and dealers by surprise. But should it have been such a surprise? Toshiba is yet another phone manufacturer to drop out of the industry. With bad...
Case Study: St. Louis-based Linguistic Services Provider Saves Money with VoIP and Unified Communications in the Cloud
LAMP modernizes with Digium Switchvox Cloud Services The days of an office receptionist relying on a paper contact list and an old-school analog phone are long gone. In fact, running a business this way has actually been proven to damage a company’s health and stunt...
Custom paint red Digium D65 business desk phone in a weekend
After my last weekend project painting a couple of Digium D40 phones different colors installed around my home, I decided to do the same with my Digium D65 in my office. I love the flexibility of having two phones on my desk but I wanted one Digium phone in red to...
VTech is a rising star in VoIP Phone Solutions
With so many small business VoIP phones available on the market, some manufacturers can often end up overshadowed and underutilized simply as a result of who's marketing budget is bigger. I’m sure many of us in the space will think of Cisco, or maybe Polycom, when...
Custom paint red Digium D40 D45 business desk phone in a weekend
Last week, I got a bit of creative inspiration. We have some Digium phones in our home, since we have a Digium Switchvox at the office, but I wanted to customize the Digium phones with a custom paint job. Digium doesn't sell phones in custom colors. As Henry Ford...
How Much Does Marketing Cost?
Phonewire is a communications company that provides businesses with marketing and technology consulting to achieve growth and increased productivity objectives. Hiring us as a consultant will deliver impressive results from classically educated experts with real...
Is the Internet being ruined? Or, how the telephone network became the Internet.
Did you know the Internet is essentially the telephone network backwards and inside out? Ever wonder how the Internet was designed? When we talk about why we started this business, it is based on the inspiration that technology should be open and new ideas should...