July 14, 2023
How many technology inventions remain in service practically unchanged for over 140 years!
Wind back the clock to March of 1876, the 10th to be precise, Alexander Graham Bell was making his first telephone communication through a vibrating diaphragm which varied the electrical resistance in a circuit. Throughout 1876 Bell focused on improving his electromagnetic telephone which still underpins the basic form of residential and small business connections to the telephone network today!
I wonder if Bell ever imagined that his analogue voice technology would still be used today in millions of PSTN telephone handsets. Since the late 1980’s the core global telephone network has moved to digital technology and the time has now come for Alexander’s world shrinking invention to make way to voice signals transmitted as a series of electrical ‘ones’ and ‘zeros’.
Many of us missed BT’s low key announcement in October 2015 that all traditional PSTN and ISDN services will be shut down by 2025! That may seem a long way away, however by 2020, just three years from now, businesses will no longer be able to buy any systems that use these networks!
So, if your business currently uses a PSTN based telephone system, or relies on one of the 3.2 million ISDN channels in the UK*….. now is the time to move to a cloud hosted Unified Communications platform!
The move to a cloud hosted platform should be a seamless transition if managed correctly as outlined in our earlier article The Transition To Cloud Telephony. The key advantage is that the move could revolutionise your business well ahead of the ‘BIG’ PSTN and ISDN switch-off!
Whether you are a sole trader or large enterprise, moving to a cloud hosted platform will enable you to reduce costs, serve your customers more efficiently and mobilise your workforce.
Here are just a few of the benefits that a cloud hosted Enterprise Communications platform can provide:
Wind back the clock to March of 1876, the 10th to be precise, Alexander Graham Bell was making his first telephone communication through a vibrating diaphragm which varied the electrical resistance in a circuit. Throughout 1876 Bell focused on improving his electromagnetic telephone which still underpins the basic form of residential and small business connections to the telephone network today!
I wonder if Bell ever imagined that his analogue voice technology would still be used today in millions of PSTN telephone handsets. Since the late 1980’s the core global telephone network has moved to digital technology and the time has now come for Alexander’s world shrinking invention to make way to voice signals transmitted as a series of electrical ‘ones’ and ‘zeros’.
Many of us missed BT’s low key announcement in October 2015 that all traditional PSTN and ISDN services will be shut down by 2025! That may seem a long way away, however by 2020, just three years from now, businesses will no longer be able to buy any systems that use these networks!
So, if your business currently uses a PSTN based telephone system, or relies on one of the 3.2 million ISDN channels in the UK*….. now is the time to move to a cloud hosted Unified Communications platform!
The move to a cloud hosted platform should be a seamless transition if managed correctly as outlined in our earlier article The Transition To Cloud Telephony. The key advantage is that the move could revolutionise your business well ahead of the ‘BIG’ PSTN and ISDN switch-off!
Whether you are a sole trader or large enterprise, moving to a cloud hosted platform will enable you to reduce costs, serve your customers more efficiently and mobilise your workforce.
Here are just a few of the benefits that a cloud hosted Enterprise Communications platform can provide:
- Soft Phone (Application running on a laptop or PC)
- Physical desk phone
- Android or iPhone App
- Mobile device 3G/4G (used as a call conduit – no mobile charges apply)
So while we should all indeed raise our hats to Alexander Graham Bell for his genius and determination which revolutionised the way business has been conducted globally over the past 141 years, change in this instance is definitely good.
Cloud hosted Unified Communications technology takes us a giant leap further, improving the service we can give to our customers, enabling businesses to communicate more efficiently, and ‘fingers-crossed’, improving work-life balance by facilitating remote working and a truly mobile workforce.
Although I’m sure many of you will debate whether a laptop based telephone system at the dinner table really ‘cuts the mustard’ on that last count!
* According to Comms Business, as of August 2013 there were as many as 3.2 million ISDN channels still operating in UK businesses!