A Better Virtual – USA Virtual Offices

If you were wondering if Voice Carrier is really an innovator and  leader in hosted VoIP business communications systems, now you have more proof.

Internet Telephony magazine just handed Voice Carrier Office its 2011 Product of the Year Award. This marks the second consecutive year Voice Carrier has won the magazine’s coveted annual award.

Voice Carrier Office got the attention of the magazine with its combination of communications features and a unique pricing model. With Voice Carrier Office, customers get unlimited worldwide extensions for a low fixed monthly price.

“An exceptional combination of features and a unique pricing model enable Voice Carrier’s customers to achieve tremendous business efficiencies,” says Rich Tehrani, CEO, TMC, the parent company of Internet Telephony magazine. “Congratulations to the entire team at Voice Carrier.”

Voice Carrier Office does have a clear differentiator: it’s the only cloud-based PBX provider to offer unlimited extensions and anytime, anywhere calling for one low price. Essentially, that means small businesses pay for only the number of concurrent connections they need to support the required simultaneous calling capacity as they connect with employees around the world. Voice Carrier calls it a “point-to-many” capability.

Voice Carrier Offices also offers features such as follow-me, voicemail-to-email, a customizable electronic switchboard, and a built-in conference bridge. All this allows entrepreneurs and small business owners to manage their business communications from the office, home or even on the road using their cell phone.

“We are proud that Internet Telephony’s 2011 Product of the Year Award recognizes Voice Carrier’s unsurpassed innovation,” says Gary J. Johnson, president and CEO of Voice Carrier. “Our customers continue to be extremely satisfied with Voice Carrier Office as a very easy-to-use, affordable and full-featured hosted VoIP business phone service that runs in the cloud and can be set up in minutes to reduce their phone bills by up to 70 percent. Voice Carrier Office delivers tremendous benefits and ROI to every customer.”

Voiceserve has a new product for the new year. Dubbed CalltoPBX.com, the service targets small business owners who want to virtual telephone system that lets them communicate—for free—through the Web. The virtual PBX service includes video conferencing up to five extensions, and the firm promises calls to landline and mobile phones are competitive with VoIP rates.

Voiceserve’s VoIP system is SIP-based. That means the service can be downloaded to  PCs, cameras, iPhones, iPads, Android and Blackberry phones and other mobile phones using Microsoft Windows operating system, and offers IP security. Some of the features include text messaging, faxing, music on hold, dial by name from contacts, voicemail delivery via email and call queuing.

“CalltoPBX.com brings the benefits of Internet telephony to individual users and small businesses, enabling account holders to initiate communication sessions between each other for free, wherever and whenever,” says Michael Bibelman, Voiceserve’s CEO. “Once an account is created, users can personalize greetings, receive voicemail, send voicemails to recipient’s e-mail, put calls on hold while answering another call and play music for the call on hold, and use auto-attendant to automatically forward calls or transfer calls to an extensions.”

Here’s how it works: You can create a CalltoPBX for free. You don’t even have to enter a credit card when you register. Once created, each account can have up to five users. If you need to add more users you can do that for a small, one-time fee.

When you want to enable calls to landlines and non-CalltoPBX.com mobile phones, you can purchase minutes using a credit card. Rates for calls to land lines and non-CalltoPBX.com mobile phone come with per minute charges as low as 2.1 cents to the UK, 9 cents to Peru, 3 cents to India, and 1 cent to Hong Kong.

“The economies and convenience of VoIP, especially on a peer-to-peer basis, have catapulted its use, worldwide,” Bibelman says. “Juniper Research projects mobile VoIP minutes to grow from 15 billion in 2010 to over 470 billion by 2015. This represents an incredible growth market for Voiceserve.”

With statistics like that, you can see why there are so many virtual PBX players getting into the market. This is good news for consumers, because opportunity drives competition and competition drives innovation.

The duel between Opus Virtual Office and Davinci Virtual Office Solutions continues into the New Year.

Davinci Virtual is offering our popular Live Web Chat absolutely free for 90 days when you purchase any Davinci Virtual Live Receptionist package. This is quite the bargain at a more than a $150 value. Meanwhile, Opus Virtual Offices is waiving its set up fees during the month of January. And Regus is offering $59 virtual office specials in some markets.

“I’m confident Opus VO is already the best value for businesses to acquire a total virtual office solution,” says Yori Galel, CEO of Opus Virtual Offices. “So I’m thrilled to offer our January promotion which eliminates all set up fees. A prospective client only has to contact Opus for a promo code valid for the entire month. For only $99 out of pocket a new virtual office can be fully operational, often in one day.”

What is a virtual office? Different vendors use the term differently. Some include a phone number, a virtual receptionist, and a street address. Others offer a more complete package. Opus Virtual Offices falls into the latter category. Either way, virtual offices save small business owners plenty of bucks over traditional office leases while offering a professional image.

If you are looking to spruce up your professionalism in 2012 without breaking the bank, call a reputable virtual office provider who offers a suite of services, such as virtual receptionists, that can grow with your firm.