Session initiation protocol (SIP) enabled phone calls are producing huge telecom cost savings and great service and support for businesses across the country.
The rules of long distance calling and pricing are changing. We are seeing extraordinarily low rates on telecommunications services across our client network because of the wonderful new SIP technology and outstanding sales support. “SIP is allowing us to offer long distance rates are as low 1 to 1.5 cents per minute for intrastate, interstate, toll-free service and outbound long distance service,” reports Rick Meumann, President of Advatel.net, out of Long Beach California. Advatel offers AireSpring SIP services as well as an array of hundreds of low cost telecommunications products and VOIP calling services. Also, these new ethical carriers are offering better billing increments and truth in billing practices. Wholesale prices for 2nd and 3rd tier carriers are dropping to as low as ½ penny per minute using SIP technology in the network cloud, which in turn is causing retail calling prices to drop rapidly. Many clients were recently paying close to 3 cents per minute for traditional interstate long distance so they are able to cut their long distance costs by a whopping 50% with SIP.
What is SIP? SIP is a very simple IP access based technology which allows companies to use VOIP technology and carrier equipment for IP telephone calls. This IP dialing is accomplished without the company having to purchase expensive VOIP equipment on site. It is very reliable technology, calls are crystal clear and all that is normally needed to access the SIP network by business customers is a gateway device and a router. Companies like AireSpring offer SIP dialing without short duration surcharge calls incurred by other companies.
Getting the best bang for your buck is a key component of telecom cost savings but in addition to the huge savings for business clients, we’re also seeing phenomenal service support from cut-rate long distance agents and resellers.
Why is the telecom support service improving? First, SIP allows for quick changes efficient management of calls. Moreover, many low long distance rate resellers who are competitive local exchange carriers (CLEC) are supported by highly knowledgeable consultants who recently lost their jobs from the major telephone carriers and subsequently opened up their own telecommunications sales companies on their own. These CLEC consultants can easily and cheaply provide all of the business telecommunications support services and can now engineer and support high-profile customers with superior service that they formerly offered their interexchange local carrier (ILEC) customers who paid a premium for those services. Social networking sites such as linked in, twitter and Facebook are filled with ethical, talented and knowledgeable telecommunications cost consultants.
And T1 and data customers are benefitting as well. We’re seeing fixed long distance PRI rates from companies like Airespring for as low as $450 per month and long distance T1 rates at $150 per month. Again, allowing long distance rates to be an average of 1.5 cents per minute. MPLS rates are also incredibly low and the support has been phenomenal, with no downtime for converting these services for cheaper rates. That is a great deal for data, long distance and T1 service.
We often recommend CLEC pricing during for our telecom audit clients because they often use the same ILEC (big three carriers) to transport data and telephone calls, yet the SIP pricing is at wholesale rates. This allows for maximum telecom cost savings.
Are you interested in eliminating short duration call charges for your call center or business and taking advantage of aggregate wholesale telecom call pricing? Want to know what the difference in pricing would be if you switched to SIP technology? Contact the telecom cost savings experts at 1-888-487-5326 or at telecom cost savings contact form for a free cost savings analysis of your call volume and expense.
Next week, this telecom audit news blog will be reporting on telecommunications aggregation and telecom wholesale pricing, which allows for the pooling of smaller end business calling customers with BottaBoom or other large entities, to gain the same or better long distance discounts that large fortune 500 clients and other high volume organizations receive because of large call volume. These tactics are producing unheard of telecom cost savings.
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July 22nd, 2010 at 5:26 pm
I agree that SIP is hands down the best long distance calling methodology for companies that don’t want to invest heavily in on-site voip equipment. Simply connect to the IP cloud and dial away. This is amazing technology and great for telecom cost savings.
August 25th, 2010 at 4:02 pm
The more I learn about SIP trunking, the more I find to my liking. SIP trunking is very versatile and so much less expensive than traditional TDM voice technology. I’ve seen some customers save up to 85% on their telecommunications invoices by deploying this technology. SIP uses the miracle of the internet to complete telephone calls!