Choose an Experienced Phone System Company With Network Experience When You Get Internet Phone Service

"The move to Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is no longer a matter of when, but if." Zeus Kerravala of the Yankee Group

For its part, the Yankee Group predicts almost 1 million VoIP subscribers by year's end, growing to 17.5 million U.S. households by the end of 2008 - up from 131,000 last year.

As Internet telephone arrives, you will hear from two distinctly different types of companies... Phone companies and IT/software companies. VoIP networking companies are typically applications software people and approach your phone service as an enterprise application and network issue.

If you have a supportive, responsive, and communicative IT department, you might choose an Internet network company to implement your IP Telephony solution and you can host and keep your own service current. If you do not have a knowledgeable IT Networking support person on staff who knows how to implement IP Telephony, you may want to opt for a company like Quality Connections who has been in the phone and cabling business for 14 years and networking business for 11, who keeps up with all of the best upgrades and changes and who will host these applications for you. They know what you want out of your phone service.

Quality Connections takes the split personality out of your new phone service. Quality Connections delivers a "plug into any high- speed Internet connection" phone AND service for a flat, low, monthly charge. The newest QC IP phone service comes with a very cool Samsung phone with 21 one-touch buttons that are set up to do what you would like them to do. The prompt screen on the phone itself coaches you through using the sophisticated features. So easy. The dial pad is flanked by a set of buttons for volume, redial, conference, transfer, hold, and speaker so that you do not have to learn any number schemes or programming.

Plus, if you take your phone with you, any high- speed Internet connection will bring your office telephone service with you. You cannot tell (and callers cannot tell) where you are, really, and you keep all of your one-touch buttons and the ability to reach extensions and speed dials just like you were in your own office. So, you can remotely resemble your office-self from home or anywhere in the world! If you get brave and choose to do your own programming, there is a programming wheel on the phone, which can be easily used with telephone coaching from Quality Connections Customer Service.

In thirteen years in business, Quality Connections has met few people who can identify complex trunking problems with a telco provider or who really understand the phone bill and savings that can be had in transition to IP telephony. Quality Connections hopes that you will try to avoid the split and foray into Internet phone service with a company that has a solid background in both phone systems and networking.