BT Featureline user or Birchills Telecom Phone System user?

When FeatureLine, FeatureLine plus and Centrex were introduced they represented an excellent choice of technology. Now it is simply outdated.

With Birchills Telecom you get:

• More functions - you can now do properly all those things you had to work round
• More flexibility - you can control it all in any way you like
• Quality SIP handsets are free
• A lot lower ongoing costs - BT is 97% more expensive
• Our Scenario shows Birchills Telecom costs of £600 compared to BT £1197
• Call costs are a lot lower typically 40% less. BT Featureline National Call Cost day time to national number 9.5p per minute plus connection fee rounded to the nearest minute above and nearest penny above. Birchills Telecom 1.2p per minute rounded to the nearest second above and nearest penny above. BT and Birchills Telecom have capped calling schemes. BT have a sequence of call plans.

So the sooner you call us the sooner you can start to save.

1. Hunt Group numbers: You have an additional phone number that accepts simultaneous incoming calls. Featureline then searches for free extensions to receive them. Birchills Telecom Connect gives you complete flexibility with incoming calls.

2. Call Diversion: Redirect all incoming calls automatically to an internal or external number, including mobiles. You can also set up diversion on busy and diversion on no reply. Birchills Telecom Connect does this.

3. Call Waiting: Lets you know, while you're engaged on another call, that a caller is trying to contact you. You can speak to the caller with or without ending the original call. Birchills Telecom Connect does this plus gives you full conference facilities.

4. Call Pick-Up: Answer a call to another Featureline extension from your own phone. Birchills Telecom Connect does this.

5. Call Return: Tells you the telephone number of the last person who called you. Birchills Telecom Connect will tell you the number of any person that ever dialled you together with full call statistics and graph all the information via the web portal.

6. Call Transfer: Pass a call to another Featureline extension or any external number, including mobiles. Birchills Telecom Connect will allow you to park calls as well.

7. Internal calls: Pay nothing for calls between Featurelines on your site. These are your Featureline extensions. Birchills Telecom Connect allows free calls to any phoine on our network anywhere in the world.

8. Featureline Call Barring: Limit the scope for costly unauthorised calls. Birchills Telecom Connect allows complete control over call cost and barring, including barring by time of day.

9. Three-way calling: Talk to two people at the same time. The other participants can be on a Featureline extension or an external line. Birchills Telecom Connect allows you to talk to unlimited people at the same time.

10. Code Calling: Store regularly used numbers and dial them quickly. Birchills Telecom Connect does this.

11. Repeat Last Call: Redial the last number called. Birchills Telecom Connect does this and lets you redial any previous number called.

12. Reminder Call: Use your Featureline as an alarm clock. Birchills Telecom Connect does this.

13. Caller Display: See the caller's phone or extension number, if available, before you answer (you'll need a caller-display phone or unit). There is a £20 one off set up fee to add this feature to your line. Birchills Telecom Connect does this, there is no set up fee.

14. General Interrogation: Check which Features you have set up on your Featureline. Birchills Telecom Connect does this, allowing you to alter any features you wish on demand at any time.

15. Withhold your Number: Prevent the person you are calling from seeing your phone number. You can do this for individual calls or permanently. Birchills Telecom Connect does this.

16. Call Offer: Let another extension user who is engaged know that they are needed. Birchills Telecom Connect does this.