A Comparative Analysis of the Top VoIP Brands.

Which VOIP Vendor Wins Your Communications Budget?

Nothing stretches a business budget more than communication. Runaway long-distance, roaming and monthly phone rates can seriously hurt the bottom line. More and more companies are scrambling for cost containment as costs continue to rise. There are so many choices and so many decisions to make – what is a business to do?

VENDORS BATTLING FOR HUGE MARKET

74 Billion Industry by

2015

HOW VOIP WORKS

VOIP MARKET IS HIGHLY DYNAMIC

Hosted VoIP and UC markets, unified communications markets, are highly dynamic and include traditional operators like AT&T, cable multi-system operators (MSO), the industry term for cable company, VARs/agents, PBX/UC vendors and pure play hosted providers. Unified communication markets allow the integration of real-time communication services such as instant messaging, presence information, telephony data sharing, call control and speech recognition with non-real-time communication services such as voicemail, fax, email, and SMS messaging. Infonetics forecasts the combined business and residential and SOHO (small office/home office) VoIP services market to grow to $74.5 billion in 2015. Infonetics tracked a number of service providers in compiling this data. They included: AT&T, Cablevision, Charter, Comcast, Cox, Embratel NetFone, France Telecom, KDDI, LG Dacom, LibertyGlobal, NTT, ONO, Optus, Rogers, SFR, SK Broadband, SoftBank, Tele2 Netherlands, Telecom Italia, Time Warner Cable, Verizon, Vonage and others.

VOIP Markets are Highly Dynamic

Infonetics’ scorecard ranked Verizon, Comcast, 8x8 and West as the top hosted VoIP providers in North America for 2013. Verizon, XO, AT&T and Windstream rated the highest for IP connectivity.

According to Infonetics, the top hosted VoIP providers had over 200,000 seats. Their researchers found hosted VoIP and UC markets in North America remain highly dynamic, providing businesses with a broad mixt of providers to select. These include traditional operators, cable MSOs (multiple system operators), Value-added Resellers (VARs/agents), PBX/UC (unified communications) vendors and pure play hosted providers. Comcast rated particularly high in Infonetics’ hosted VoIP leadership scorecard.

“Comcast’s nationwide push of its Business VoiceEdge service helped Comcast grow its installed base and maintain its number one position in hosted VoIP leadership scorecard for the second year in a row,” said Diane Myers, principal analyst for VoIP, UC and IMS at Infonetics Research. “8x8 follows right on the heels of Comcast, making a big leap this year, thanks to improved financial stability, continued growth of its installed base and a focus on service enhancements. Verizon is number one in our IP connectivity leadership scorecard, followed closely by XO.”

The Watch List-If you have tried to research the best business VoIP provider, you probably have discovered it is a very time consuming… and confusing process. Different analysts rank VoIP providers differently and by different standards. We’ve tried to cut through the clutter so you can make a decision all in one place. To help you make an informed decision on the best VoIP services for your needs, we have scoured through a series of business analyses of the most prominent and promising VoIP providers for 2013. Rankings vary based on services, price and quality. Information comes from current industry analysis. TechMediaNetwork recently rated business VoIP providers for their service plans, features, ease of setup/use, overall network, help and support. RingCentral scored the highest in all categories with an overall score of 9.73 out of a possible 10. JVE came in second with 9.60, followed by Q Phone.com with 8.48

TheDigest.com Results

VOIP-Catalog.com(Business Provider Rankings)

MyVOIPProvider.com Rankings

MyVoIPProvider.com also came in with their top five rankings for small business VoIP providers. They are Vocalocity, 8x8, RingCentral, Nextiva and OnSIP.

Now That You’ve Learned All This… Do you find all this information too time consuming or perplexing to take on by yourself? Don’t worry! You can always get an outside opinion to find out which VoIP solution fits your business.

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