Reduce Costs on International Calling

June 20, 2008

One primary incentive for employing a virtual PBX phone system into your business is the ability to potentially lower your overall costs of calling internationally, as well as being more accessible to customers and clients on an international level. Depending on your type of business, you may find a need to make many international calls on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis, so it becomes important that you can manage your calling plans.

PBXplans.com offers flat-rate minute plans that can be as low as only 3.9¢ per minute. Many plans offer free minutes for each month. For example, in the Large Corporation plan automatically get 2000 monthly minutes as part of that plan. Additionally, prepaying for minutes can save you quite a bit of money by buying the minutes in bulk. Plus, the unused prepaid minutes can be rolled over into the next month.

One thing customers need to be cautious of when looking for a good virtual PBX plan is the risk of unscrupulous companies who practice what is known as “double-leg billing”. Double-leg billing happens when an incoming call is considered to be one leg and when that call is transferred to a forwarding number, that transfer is considered the second leg. In other words, you are double billed for one, single call.

Overall, a virtual PBX phone system can really save a business big money and still offer them the most innovations in telephony technology. Selecting a plan that is right for your business is important, but being able to select plans that you can add on to at a later time, would be a good initial investment of time and money. It would also be in the best interest of your company to avoid signing any long-term commitments or contracts with one company that locks you in to a plan. Your business will most likely need to work on plans that can grow with your business and change when your business requires a change.

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