Top 8 Reasons to Buy an Asterisk Phone System
Companies are seeing real benefits from Asterisk / FreePBX / Elastix. Not only companies that have the staff to learn, install, and support the various solutions, but also regular companies who just need a phone solution that does the job. Why choose Asterisk? Read on!
Better Value: The fact is that no other solution offers the same mix of good features and value.
Voicemail to Email: Isn’t it great to be able to get your voicemail in your email inbox? Most of our customers think so. This ability becomes more important as more and more people have smartphones such as the iPhone and the Android.
Web-Based Administration: Manage your phone system and make common changes from any PC on your network with the web browser. It doesn’t get any easier than that!
Built-in Call Reporting: Basic call reporting is including and is running from the day you install the system. Many other systems require yo
u to purchase an add-on package to do the same thing. Why NOT get it for free?
Built-in Faxing: Faxes are sent to email – an awesome feature for a few reasons. No more printing unwanted faxes. No more sensitive faxes where the whole company can see them. No more losing faxes to another person who takes your fax with them.
The Big “5”: What do most people do with their phones? They make calls, take calls, check voicemail, put people on hold, and transfer calls.
Good Phone Options: Choose phones that match your company culture. Here are a few options
Cisco 509G – this popular phone choice includes 12 programmable buttons and bright lights on the buttons make this phone super easy to use. The combination of the buttons with great audio quality, a built in headset jack, and a nice speaker phone makes this phone a winner.
Aastra 9480i – this is the phone that some companies choose because of the integrated menus and the low desk profile. This phone also has many of the same features such as a good speaker phone and an integrated headset jack.
Honesty: The Asterisk community is brutally direct and honest about how features or functions work, or more importantly sometimes, don’t work. Many manufacturers will release features with complete descriptions in marketing materials only to have them not really perform as advertised. “We’ll fix that in our next release.” is a common response.
If you considering a telephone solution from Avaya, Cisco, Shortel, Mitel, Panasonic, or any number of others please consider the Asterisk. Not only will you get better features and more flexibility, but you just may save some money along the way too!
