Smartphones are very common in today's business world, and now companies that use VoIP for their business communications can utilize the iPhone in a brand new way. A new app for the iPhone, iSIP, has been made to work with VoIP providers. Users who install this app can turn their iPhone into an extension of their office phone number.
One of the numerous advantages of utilizing VoIP for your business is that workers can be all around the world and still have access to their voicemail and make and receive calls from their work phone number. Employees who use laptops can install softphones, software programs that work on a computer, but offer the same functionality as a deskphone. You only require an accompanying headset. However, this new iSIP application has changed the iPhone into a true extension of one's office phone, without having to depend on more equipment.
This is how it works. There are many Virtual PBX services today which essentially allow a firm to outsource their entire business phone system to a third party provider. All of the features of these services are obtained over the Internet. Since the Internet is pretty much everywhere, all you need is an IP phone to have access to the hosted pbx. There are many VoIP phones which look, feel and act like traditional corporate desk phones. Now, the iSIP is taking this a step further by practically turning the iPhone into an office phone.
Once you configure your iPhone to work with your firm's VoIP service, your iPhone will be an extension of your desk phone. You will be able to make and receive phone calls using your work phone number, keeping your privacy and projecting the impression that you are in the office, rather than the local Starbucks. As a true extension, you can dial 4-digit extensions of your colleagues and get calls from the virtual receptionist as well.
With this app on your iPhone, you can be all around the world and still be able to perform the same work as if you were sitting at your desk in the office.
iSIP transmits phone calls over the Internet, as VoIP is meant to do. Because of this, iSIP will only work in areas that have WiFi access. It does not work with the iPhone's cellular network. However, in today's tech-driven society, mostly everywhere has WiFi access!
With with the iPhone's ability to access work emails, iSIP will help change the iPhone into a valued and incredibly useful device for any hosted voip deployment.
Robert Leo writes on topics such as
business VoIP and
Hosted VoIP.
