[email]Simon.Astbury@googlemail.com[/email] wrote:[color=blue]
> Does anyone have any stats on how much money they have saved by
> installing skype for a small or medium sized companies?
> There was an article in the guardian [url]http://observer.guardian.co.uk/cash/story/0,,2062580,00.html[/url]
> which stated that a home user had saved 60% - "We are probably making
> a 60 per cent saving on total phone bills,'
> This is a substantial saving and i am interested in knowing if anyone
> has had the same saving for businesses?[/color]

Almost certainly for us.

As most of our business is e-tail rather than through our shop door,
most of our phone calls are between 1 and 2 minutes to customers mobile
numbers. With voip we pay around 6p per minute for mobiles and get all
calls to landlines (which always total less than 5 hours/week)completely
free.

We also use the free minutes on the voip account for dialing from home
and... have voip <-> voip from home to shop which again is free any time
of day.

Don't know about Skype. Might be a good tool for incoming calls
especially if there are lots of overseas clients to be had, but VOIP is
more versatile and cheaper for outgoing calls. But I would say 60% call
saving is a fair figure for our own small business usage.

It's also saved additional PSTN Lines and cut our need for more than 2
lines down to only requiring a single PSTN/BT line for back-up ADSL for
when the cable connection goes down and outgoing Fax/card terminal
connections.

HTH
Pete
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