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BT to increase phone call charges by 5%

Telecoms giant BT is to raise call charges for residential customers by up to 5% on 3 December - the second increase this year. UK landline calls will go up from 7.6p a minute to 7.95p a minute. Line rental prices will also rise, but calls to mobiles will be unchanged.

The changes come after a 10% rise in call charges a year ago, and a 9% increase in April. But BT said these prices would now be frozen until 2013. In July, BT group said profits before tax in the three months to 30 June were up 20% to £533m.

Source: bbc.co.uk/news/ business     August 27, 2011

In response,  Listers are pleased to confirm that there would be no price increases for line rentals or call charges to our customers.  ‘We are committed to ensuring great value and great service to our customers’ states Sales Director Jim Clapham

Now is a great time to upgrade your Telephone System …….with the latest release of  Avaya IP500 v.7  

  Click here for Flash Demo of Avaya IP Office

 10%  Additional Discount when upgrading legacy versions of Avaya IP Office & Index

 20% Additional Discount when replacing a Siemens Hi-Path or Hi-Com

 Free 60 Day Trail on full range of Applications including Voicemail Pro, Contact Centre, Reception SoftPhones, Power Worker…..

 Up to 5 Year Lease Finance with no interest and no upfront rentals to pay

  Technical Enhancements of Release 7

• Extended Range of Handsets to include Avaya 96xx series as well as current 16xx series & 14xx series
• Migration path for existing ‘Nortel’ BCM & Norstar users as many existing ‘Nortel’ IP & Digital handsets are compatible with Avaya IP Office
• Enhanced offer for Sub-20 user systems with simplified system manangement, and providing key system operation ‘out-of-the box’.

10%  Additional Discount when upgrading legacy versions of Avaya IP Office & Index

 The Legacy Migration promotions are available until June 30th

• IP Office 400 to IP Office 500
• INDeX to IP Office

The Promotions will allow legacy customers to migrate to IP Office 500. Avaya supports those customers to benefit from new applications and functions on IP Office such as support for 9600 series IP Phones, SIP phone support, Video conferencing, improved mobility with one-X-mobile and business continuity through resilient Small Continuity Networking (SCN).

It involves an additional 10% discount off list price on a new IP Office construct.

Please note:

• A Certificate of Intention to Destroy is required to proceed with the rebate claim.
• The 5402 Digital, 5602 IP, 1603 IP, 1403 Digital phones and IP DECT / WiFi equipment, TCM-8 Digital Station 8, DS16A and DS30A Digital  Station Expansion modules are EXCLUDED from the legacy migration promotions.
• For IP Office 400 migrations
  • there is no need to order new IP Office application licences as existing licences can be transferred from the old IP400 Feature Key to the new IP Office SD Card.
  • The IP400 Analog Trunk 4, BRI-8 (Universal), PRI (single and dual) and the VCM-4/8/16/24/30 cards can be re-used by using the IP500 legacy card carrier.

 20% Additional Discount when replacing a Siemens Hi-Path or Hi-Com

 This Promotion will allow legacy Siemens customers  to migrate to IP Office 500. Avaya supports those customers to benefit from new applications and functions on IP Office such as support for 9600 series IP Phones, SIP phone support, Video conferencing, improved mobility with one-X-mobile and business continuity through resilient Small Continuity Networking (SCN).

We will provide an additional  20% discount off list price on a new IP Office construct so that - with the Distributors help- Resellers can offer an IP Office solution at 50% off to the end-user.

Please note: The 5402 Digital, 5602 IP, 1603 IP, 1403 Digital phones,  IP DECT / WiFi equipment,  TCM-8 Digital Station 8, DS16A and DS30A Digital  Station Expansion modules are EXCLUDED from this promotion.

A Certificate of Intention to Destroy is required to proceed with the rebate claim

Free 60 Day Trail on full range of Applications including Voicemail Pro, Contact Centre, Reception SoftPhones, Power Worker…..

 Get 60-day trial licenses for popular IP Office applictions for FREE! This is an ongoing program with no set expiration date.

Trial licenses allow applications to run in fully functional form for 60 days (from the date of license generation), after which time they cannot be used until upgraded at cost to the full license. Each trial license may be generated only once per IP Office system. Trial licenses cannot be extended - customer must purchase the application to continue usage.

Benefits:

• Single orderable item for each application that enables the operation of IP Office applications for 60 days.
• Ordered through ADI and available with certificates.
• Trial to operate from the generation date of the license.
• Trial license will not be invoiced.
• Evaluate features and benefits of IP Office applications before committing to purchase.

Special Conditions:

• A new orderable license key is available for each of the above applications which will enables them to run for 60 days.
• These license keys are orderable as a standard ADI license key or can be ordered on a certificate.
• The trial period will start from the generation date of the license NOT the installation date.
• This license key will not be invoiced.
• Any unexpired trial licenses will be transferred as part of any maintenance swap (Feature Key swap).
• At the end of the 60-day trial period the application will stop operating until an appropriate full license is installed.

Each trial license can only be requested once for each Feature Key

“We have now moved into the realm of (phone) hacking as a financing mechanism for terrorism.”  Erez Liebermann, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Wall Street Journal, June 13 2009

Phreaking, phone hacking, dial-through fraud, toll fraud is the illegal and unauthorized access by criminals often with links to terrorists to your phone system to route their own call traffic through it at your expense.   And this expense can often be more than 20-100 times the amount of your usual phone bill. The UK is now one of the top five global hot spots for communication fraud - including telephone hacking - which is estimated to be running at up to $80 billion worldwide.

According to the latest research from The Communication Fraud Control Association (www.cfca.org) the UK has joined Cuba, the Philippines, Lichtenstein and India where the biggest outbreaks are concentrated, with problems continuing to escalate.

Callista Control Phreak is the only Telephone System PBX Firewall which can detect and kill invasions and it can be easily deployed to protect you against this growing crime. Control Phreak provides total protection for your phone system 24 hours a day, seven days a week - automatically - but leaving you in total control so that the legitimate phone traffic of your business is never compromised.

RRP                 £495 + VAT

Sale Price       £425 + VAT   (valid until 31/3/2011)

Includes:

• Site Software License (one-off)
• Installation & Training
• 12 month support contract

Currently available for the following phone systems: Panasonic KXTDA, KXTDE, KXNCP ranges, Siemens Hi-Path, Samsung 7000 series

For more information, please click on the following links for PDF Brochures:

A double-edged fraud

Control-Phreak brochure

Control Phreak FAQ’s

Another great offer from Panasonic

30% off Panasonic KXTVM50 2 Port Voicemail Module 

RRP: £879  Sale Price: £615

 Even while you are away from the office, the Panasonic Voice Processing System will make sure you never miss a message. You can configure the system to notify you by email when you have received new messages; you can then log in to your mailbox remotely and listen to your messages. Better yet, have the system send your new messages in telephone-quality WAV file format as email attachments and listen to your messages without even picking up the phone! You can easily forward them by email to other parties and keep backup copies of those messages on your PC. Calling the office to check your messages is finally a thing of the past.

 Compatible with Panasonic KXTDA, KXTDE & KXNCP Phone Systems

Following the popularity of this promotional campaign, Panasonic are pleased to announce that the 20% Ec0-Scappage Allowance has once again been extended and will run until End of March 2011

Make the most of this excellent opportunity to upgrade your phone system at a much reduced cost after the 20% discount.

Trade-in an old PBX for a new Panasonic Unified Communications platform and get 20% off the cost of the new system. Qualifying systems include: NCP 500 (not X and V variants), NCP 1000, TDE 100, TDE200 and TDE600.

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.

Click here for: panasonic-ecoscrappagescheme-full-details1.pdf