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Cloud Net brings business VoIP to UK businesswomen’s network

Cutting-edge internet phone system for small businesses gets rural female entrepreneurs talking.

25 March 2010. To help rural businesswomen who run start-up or small businesses, WiRE (Women in Rural Enterprise), has partnered with internet phone system provider Cloud Net. Through Cloud Net Connect, WiRE members can use the internet to enable free and low cost calls so that rural businesswomen can speak to like minded female entrepreneurs throughout the WiRE network, while saving money and projecting a professional image.

WiRE are part of a new national initiative to get rural business women talking to each other for free. The initiative aims to encourage WiRE members, including the businesswomen who meet monthly from Yorkshire to Cambridgeshire, to share their ideas, knowledge and expertise to ultimately grow their businesses.

"We wanted to offer our members access to green, cost-effective and reliable telephone system that would perform like that of a large company's, while keeping the local and friendly ethos of WiRE and Cloud Net's small business telephone system fits the bill, said Fiona Davies, WiRE Business Manager.

"In addition, Cloud Net's free calls within its network, free phones that we can use in the office or at home, and free set-up means we can increase networking between our members and they can plough the cost savings back into their businesses."

For a fixed fee of £8.50 a month, WiRE members receive unlimited free phone calls within the WiRE community or to other Cloud Net system users. The Cloud Net system also gives WiRE members all the features of a professional business switchboard and free telephone handsets.

The telephone system, is based on VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), and gives local women-owned businesses, important features such as call forwarding, voicemail sent to your email inbox, conferencing, call recording and cheap international calls. WiRE members only pay for calls made outside the WiRE and Cloud Net network and international calls.

WiRE supports some 2,000 women in rural business by offering members a package of practical business services which now include Cloud Net's telephone system. Local WiRE networks- help members keep up to date on all the latest news whilst improving their skills and doing business.

Chairman of Cloud Net, David Hill, commented, "It's great to see best practice organisations like WiRE investing in technological advances to give themselves an invaluable competitive edge. Companies want a contact number for life wherever they are based, lower costs and the ability to operate with as many people or branches as they want, without considerable costs. This is where our leading telecoms really helps!"

Those wishing to find out more about the many benefits, features and functions of the Cloud Net system can simply visit www.cloudnetuk.com for more details.

For more information about your local WiRE group, please see www.wireuk.org/networks, or contact Julie Edwards at:
Julie@wireuk.org

Caption for photograph: Danielle Cochrane, Cloud Net and Fiona Davies from WiRE. Downloadable here:

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About WiRE

WiRE is a national membership organisation offering practical and specific business support to women running rural businesses. WIRE works with RDAs and Business Links to deliver public funded projects in order to boost the number of women starting and growing rural businesses in specific regions.

About Cloud Net

Cloud Net supplies telephone systems to SMEs and start ups with the advantage of no capital expenditure necessary to run a professional PBX and dramatically lower running costs. Cloud Net has developed a dedicated small business VoIP network providing free calls within the network. The company has a happy and growing customer http://www.cloudnetuk.com/case-studies base. Cloud Net is privately financed and started trading in March 2009.

Contact for media information

For more information, to review Cloud Net services or for case studies, please contact Ranbir Sahota or Sara Pennant of Vitis PR, on 0121 242 8048, ranbir@vitispr.com or sara@vitispr.com