BT's Enhanced Hosted VoIP v Birchills.Net - 07/03/11
Posted by Cloudnet Telecommunications on Mon, Mar 07, 2011 @ 04:09 AM
Comparisons of services are always interesting. Here we have taken the newly enhanced BT Hosted VoIP service and compared it to the business hosted VoIP service provided by Birchills Telecom.
One obvious point is the free IP phone from Birchills Telecom
compared to the £90 required by BT for each phone. We hope you find the comparison useful.
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Feature
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BT
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Birchills Telecom
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Connection Charge
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£80
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£20
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Hosted VoIP
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£7.50
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From £7.49
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Unlimited calls
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£20* add subscription
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£34.50 includes subscription
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1 hunt group
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Free
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Free
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Additional hunt group
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£5.00
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Free
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Additional Numbers
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£2.99
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£2.00
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Phone
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£90
Only BT Falcon phone allowed
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Free IP01 Phone
Any SIP phone allowed
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Additional MADN
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£5
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All numbers can be MADN but with far more features
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Managed install
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£100
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Free
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BT disclaimer
* includes calls to 01, 02, 03, g21, 0845, 0870, fm1 - fm13, includes all IDD destinations except exclusions outlined in PLE. Fair Use Policy applies - Customers are entitled to 5000 minutes in any combination of inland and IDD calls and 300 f2m minutes. If a customer breaches either of these rules (or both at the same time) they will be charged for additional calls at OP rates. NB: if they breach 300 f2m but have only used 1000 inland and IDD minutes in total we would charge for the f2m but the inland/IDD would still come out of the Unlimited bundle until 5000 was reached. Likewise, if they breach 5000 inland and IDD minutes but have not yet reached 300 f2m we would charge for additional inland and IDD calls that month but the f2m would still come out of the bundle until 300 was reached.
What is a MADN?
A Multiple Appearance Directory Number (MADN) provides you with one telephone number which, when called, is directed to multiple lines.
You can use a MADN to set up a sales desk, where calls to the number are directed to a selection of available lines simultaneously until one of them answers.
If a call to a MADN goes unanswered, it is forwarded to the MADN’s mailbox.
You can maintain a MADN by using BT Hosted VoIP Service Webcare.
Call Features
BT does not support 1 account across multiple locations. Calls between locations are chargeable.
BT does not seem to do time based services ie out of hours.
Note
The headline £5.00 a month figure refers to 2nd year line rental ie line rental drops from £7.50 to £5.00 year 2
About Birchills Telecom
Birchills Telecom is the friendly professional business phone systems company based in Walsall Our team has developed our hosted VoIP phone systems platform and the technology behind it. Birchills Telecom is the only company to concentrate purely on our Internet based phone systems solution – the switchboard in the sky.
The business phone benefits of VoIP lie behind the astronomical growth of the industry. In summary these are:
•Free calls within the network.
•Low subscription costs.
•Amazing feature set.
•Unified communications at a dramatically reduced price point.
Why not learn more about our commercial phone systems by following the link?