Blog Index 2010

Birchills Telecom Trust Marks

There were over 100 blog articles published in 2010. 3 topics stood out as the most interesting by a mile - Vodafone with Suresignal, Orange with UMA and BT with Fon. You can check them all out using the index below.

Advice

What is a PBX? - 5/11/10
Unified Comms delivers – 16/11/10
Reducing The Price of Telephone Systems – 14/10/10
SME Buyers' Guide to Phone Systems – 14/9/10
7 Reasons Why Business Telecoms Has Changed Forever – 08/09/10
Making business calls from a blocked telephone number – how will your customers know who you are? 26/8/10
How to save money with phone systems 13/8/10
A Review of Birchills Telecom from Freelance Advisor
Privacy Is Important.
Moving offices - You Can keep Your Phone Number with Birchills Telecom
Seven tips on how not to answer your business phone unless you do want to lose customers
Birchills Telecom - A business phone system in the hierarchy of desirability
Traditional PBX Is Dead
Tips on answering your business phone professionally
Are old fashioned telecom companies fighting a losing battle again hosted VoIP telecoms?
Inbound Telephony - never miss another business telephone call
The death of the traditional PBX
6 Situations For Voicemail - US Style
Soft Phone vs Birchills Telecom
The Ultimate Green PBX – Birchills Telecom Connect
Technology Is Better Than Travel
Unified Communications From Birchills Telecom
When Snow Strikes Can Your Company Still Communicate?

Video

Birchills Telecom Video Blog 'What are the benefits of Birchills Telecom?' - 1/11/10
Video Blog - Never miss a call again – 5/10/10
Video - How To Get An Additional Phone Line Fast – 28/9/10
Video - BT's Radioactive Phones – 27/9/10
Video - BT and The Slimming Phone – 23/9/10
Video - BT A Guide For Small Businesses -21/09/2010
Birchills Telecom Video Blog - Phone System with HD Sound – 10/12/10
Video blog - How Birchills Telecom have benefited from the iPad and iPhone – 23/11/10
Birchills Telecom Video Blog - The History of Telecoms - 16/12/10
Birchills Telecom's video blog 'Birchills Telecom apply for ICT Best Value Company Award' 11/11/10

VoIP

What is the difference between VoIP and Hosted VoIP? - 19/11/10
RedCARE, VoIP and Porting 29/12/2010
999, 112 and VoIP
What is VoIP? - 29/10/10
Are you worried about moving to VoIP? - 07/10/10
VoIP basics: How to make free business phone calls via the Internet
VoIP, PBX, QoS, SIP - What does it all mean?
VoIP Goes Plug and Play
Seven Things That People Get Wrong About Hosted VoIP Business Phone Systems
VoIP phone systems provide great return on investment for businesses
How to beat hotel telephone charges with plug and play business VoIP from Birchills Telecom– 13/09/10

Other Providers - BT

BT data predicts that dumping Scotland would be easier than Wales
Are You Paying Too Much For BT Products? - 12/12/10
Birchills Telecom Welcomes Ofcom Control on BT 8/12/2010
BT’s Week Response to Dead Phone Lines - 18/10/10 and 22/10/10
ISDN Vs VOIP – 03/09/10
BT Need Value For Their £125m Investment in the Olympics
Birchills Telecom reviews BT Openzone
Birchills Telecom's views on the latest BT advert
What happens if BT strike?
BT vs Virgin Media vs Cable and Wireless vs Talk Talk
BT provoke anger through off-peak call plan changes

Other Providers - The Rest

Learn from Skype's Difficulties – 23/12/10
Vodafone Price Cuts on Data Roaming – Birchills Telecom Welcomes Great News 08/12/2010
Whatever happened to 4G? 26/11/10
Has Opal shot themselves in the foot with a witless campaign? - 22/11/10
Vodafone in Protests – Again – 9/11/10
Birchills Telecom Video Blog - Vodafone One Net v Birchills Telecom Connect – 3/11/10
Beware Skype look alike Spam - 01/10/10
Skype Connect Vs Birchills Telecom Connect – 10/9/10
Skype To Float – 10/8/10
Vodafone Sure Signal vs T-Mobile Cel-Fi vs Orange UMA vs Birchills Telecom Connect
Microsoft Response Point to die
Virgin Media Hike Phone Charges Prices Again From April 1
Avoid the National Rail Strike Chaos
A whole new world of acronyms at the Cable And Wireless Site - what do they mean?
Orange UMA vs Vodafone Sure Signal vs Cloud Net Connect
Will VoIP hurt Vodafone too much
How is Vodafone Sure Signal Going To Sell?

Hardware

Kiss Phone For Christmas?
Ipad2 - Means Business Systems Are Go
Nexus S Smartphone - The Latest Salvo From Google
First Advanced Communication Satellite HYLAS 1 Into Orbit – 06/12/10
Motorola copies Apples marketing methods
Cloud Net reviews iPhone 4 Prices.

History

Vodafone's Chris Gent Plans 10 Years Ago 12/11/10
130 years in the UK telecoms industry – major milestones – 11/10/10
The history of office life in the UK – 1960s to 2010s – 04/10/10
The Evolution of Small Business Telephone Systems in the UK – 30/9/10
Choice Declines in Business Phone Systems

Financial

Broadband Who Owns Who? - 14/12/10
Telecoms to End Year on High – 12/12/10
The Colt Group: To buy or sell, that is the question 10/11/10
Daisy Group - On The Money? - 18/10/10
Telecoms, Where Are They Now - Who Bought Whom?
Why Are Telecoms Shares So Cheap?
Review of the latest BT chief executive Ian Livingston
The cost of phone calls from the World Cup in South Africa
What Can Telecoms Learn From the Worlds Richest Man?
Monitoring the telecoms sector

Research Reports

VoIP subscribers top 100million world wide

Regulation

Ofcom - Average Salary Only £71,000 12/11/11
Parliament to Fine Silent Companies £2 Million – 26/10/10
EMF’s Probably Don’t Cause Health Problems – 18/8/10
Who can dig up the streets?
VAT Good For Cloud Net VoIP
Could Next Generation Broadband Tax Help VoIP Providers?
Who owns telephone numbers?
Super-fast broadband to benefit VoIP providers

Other

Radio 4's Steve Punt On Answering Systems 22/10/2010
Oh Joy - MBA With Telecoms Management 16/8/10
England 1 Business Traffic 0
Business Phone Systems No drama
Make sure you're not caught this Valentines Day