“Beat the Economic Blues with Avaya IP Office and Save Cash on your telecom expenses”

The solution includes a new telephone system, digital or IP telephones (or a combination thereof) and Unified Communication software (Communication Assistant Basic Express) for up to 256 users.

To qualify for the 20% rebate, ordered and installed systems must included at least 10 System Telephones (Digital, IP or a combination of both) ordered at the same time as the system.

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   With so many phones on the market how do you know which model to go for. 

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Just tell us what you need the phone to have, whether its a Touch Screen or Querty Keys, e-mails on the move or a camera.

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So how will you keep your staff working as they sit at home, snowed in?

Here are a few ideas that you could implement to keep your turnover, turning over!

• IP phones - link your home workers into your main telephone system by using IP handsets.
• The correct mobile phone tariff - get a tariff that allows your workers to make free calls to all UK standard landlines
• Desktop video conferencing - have face to face calls with your staff for free over the internet

These are just a few ideas to keep your company running. If you have used anything that works really well for you please do let us know…..

With the rapid growth of smart phones and 3G dongles, the capacity of all networks has been put under pressure. Therefore with O2 being the fastest growing and largest network of last year they need to do something to make sure that they carry on in that vain.

So they are spending millions and millions of pounds on developing their network to provide more capacity and a better service to its millions of customers.

Will this see a push from the other networks to boost their capacity and improve their service? If the current customer service from some networks is anything to go with, I doubt it.

These large networks have got so big now that customer service is a long way down their list of things to improve and since we all now have mobiles, they know we aren’t going anywhere, but something must be done otherwise we are going to be pushed around by more and more big corporations, forcing us into a large nanny state without any identity.

We’ll be American before we know it!

Apple’s iPhone as well as many other smartphones and dongle’s all use the Third Generation (3G) network to get quick internet browsing, to watch TV on their mobiles and surf the web.

Now this is a great thing, however these devices are seriously hungry when it comes to browsing. According to O2, watching something on YouTube from your mobile uses the equivalent of 500,000 texts message simultaneously!

Therefore it really isn’t any surprise that with the huge growth of smartphones and dongle use, the UK’s 3G network is reaching breaking point.

For the UK the lack of bandwidth and network speed has again come under fire. We are one of the only countries in The Developed World with slow, rubbish, outdated network infrastructures and speeds.

I live in the countryside and for me to get even 2MB on my broadband is a miracle let alone the supposed up to 20MB that are promised.

Surely as a nation that is trying to forge itself as a competitive Country we should be investing in decent infrastructure and our home grown companies rather than spending millions of pounds on health and safety rubbish and bureaucratic nonsense?

The device will be the latest in the Blackberry Pearl series and is likely to suceed the Pearl 8100/8110 and 8210.

So far it seems to be known as the Blackberry Pearl 9100 but has apparently been code named the Stratus or Striker.

The keypad seems to be a bit larger than the old Pearls and it has lost its roller ball in favour of the pad, just like the Blackberry 8520, according to the CrackBerry website.

They also think that there is a camera with LED flash, but we will wait and see when it is officially launched.

With things always seeming to slow down a bit coming up to Christmas, why not use the extra time to have a good look at your communications.

Does your phone system need upgrading? If so why not get it done during your quieter period so that it is up and running for when you return for the New Year?

Do you need a tariff review on your mobiles?

Do you want someone to have a look at your calls and lines to make sure that you are paying what you should be and no more?

Or why not simply take advantage of the fact that VAT is going back up to 17.5% in January so you could save yourself 2% on VAT simply by purchasing what you need before the New Year.

BES is relatively expensive for single workers but an absolute bargain for larger companies, however with the growth of Open Source help from Google the one man bands can now sync their calender and contacts with their mobiles for free.

With Google Mobile Sync, as long as you have a mobile that allows you to get online, you can simply sync your Google calender and your contacts and tasks with your mobile phone whenever you like.

One of the major benefits is that you will have all of your contacts available to you wherever you are in the World as long as you have internet access.

You will never miss another meeting again with their handy calender sync function and best of all, this is available free!

It is no substitute for Blackberry’s services for a larger company but if you are a one man band it is definitely worth looking at.

Simply follow this link - http://www.google.com/mobile/products/sync.html#p=default

Is this simply a big push to get business  travellers back in the air, or to bring consumers back to travel during these hard times or is it really a true incentive to improve business travel?

More importantly, does it actually work? There are a number of stories bouncing around the internet that a lot of people have booked with an airline simply to use this facility only to find out that the airline only has the service on a couple of their planes! Not that much use if your plane isn’t one of them!!

What are the security implications too? Will it make things more easy for criminals to control their networks? Will the Wi-Fi effect the planes controls?

Are we again taking communication too far? Will companies now expect you to work even when you are flying?

Is this a step in the right direction or is it step too far?