Business communications can be classified into three categories:
- Inter-office calls
- Domestic calls
- International calls
Enterprises with multiple locations need to constantly be in touch with offices and customers across cities, provinces, states, countries, and continents. Almost every organization today has access to the Internet for data communications and VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol).
This technology offers the most cost effective way to optimize available resources by using the same connection for voice, fax, and data transmission to communicate over existing LANs (local area networks) or WANs (wide area networks).
Basic Calling Plans
Broadfone
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 Additional minutes are just 3.9 cents a minute. |
Long Distance Calling Add-ons
North America 500 |
Unlimited Metro Areas |
North America 2,750 |
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North America 500 offers 500 long distance minutes of anytime calling within Canada and the US** |
Unlimited Metro Areas offers unlimited local calling within a home area code (Enhanced Local Coverage continues to apply) plus major cities (Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver) |
North America 2,750 offers 2,750 minutes of anytime calling within Canada and the US** |
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-Unlimited Metro Areas is available on a per line basis, North America 500 and North America 2,750 add-ons are available on a per account basis.
**Does not include Mexico, Caribbean, Alaska, Hawaii, Yukon Northwest Territories and Nunavut.
-In case of deactivation, if the Iristel equipment is not returned within 30 days from the activation date, there will be a $39.99 fee for each line
-The monthly fees do not include hardware rental/purchase. Please consult the hardware solutions page for the available options.
-Corporate Accounts can rent no more than 2 devices with 2 lines each (a total of 4 lines). Any/all subsequent devices must be purchased, or a deposit equal to the purchase price must be made.
-In case you would like to use your own equipment, there will be a configuration fee of $39.99 per registration
Please note that in this case Corporate customers will be charged a flat rate of $19.95/ month
Voice and fax communications normally use the Public Switching Telephone Network (PSTN) through dedicated circuits called trunks or T1 lines.
Each T1 trunk contains 24 time slots, each providing 64 Kilobytes of Bandwidth. Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) on the other hand routes voice calls over the Internet or other IP-based data networks. It allows a user to call another user over the Internet for a fraction of the cost a normal telephone call.
This is made possible by packetization, and compression of voice data.