I usually try my luck here on my blogs first when I need help in finding a service that is needed for my company. So here it goes
I am looking for a phone system for our new offices in Santa Cruz that is not based on regular phones but VOIP. I looked at Vonage but it was not geared towards business, as you can't have a phone attendant to request pushing a specific extension to reach a department. I also looked at Packet8, it was a good solution but very expensive as you will have to have a full line for each employee that needs a phone on their desk to make calls, it came out to about $350 per month + $1400 startup fee for 9 phones in the office with a fax line.
They suggested having only 3 phones in the office, one for sales, one in the conference room and one for management, the rest of the team can use the phone in the conference room which sounded lame to me to ask employees to go to the conference room to make a call or use their cell phone. That costs about $185 per month.
Anyone heard of a different company that can make this work for us?
Thanks for your suggestion in advance