[asterisk-users] using residential voip for business?

[Rich Adamson]

Michael Graves wrote:
> Not to answer a question with a question....but why do so many 
> businesses focus so intently on the cost of their voip service? If we 
> presume that a business intends to stay in business, and that phone 
> service is crucial to actually being in business, then I've never seen 
> the wisdom of going to the absolute lowest bidder.

Its because a lot of business managers don't understand telecom at all 
and the only thing they can relate to is dollars. Plus, most managers 
are beat about the head and shoulders about reducing costs, so their 
resulting focus is the lowest bidder.

I once worked with a CFO in a very large telephone company. They wanted 
to redesign some of their internal financial reports to include items of 
primary interest. We had suggested removing "Furniture and Office 
Fixtures" from the report, and he objected. His comment was their are a 
lot of people working in the telephone company that didn't have a clue 
what the majority of the items on the report were, and we needed to 
leave the Furniture and Office Fixtures on them as that's the only thing 
those folks can relate to. (These were not technical reports either.)