[kidwoo]

Looking for a phone service. For a small company (15-20 people) no physical central office. Just need a central number that will then connect/forward to that many cell phones.

Most of what I'm finding is voice over IP (VOIP), we don't need to move totally off using cell phones. Just have a central online service.

any experience with this?

 

[jonKranked]

we've moved to all voip, i wanna say cisco might have some stuff where you can get voip fwd'd to a cell line? i know in MS teams you can set up a voip number to ring through teams

 

[eric strt6]

maybe these folks?

Voice, Video, Team Messaging, Contact Centers | RingCentral

Get a reliable and feature-rich phone system for small business, without the high price tag. See how RingCentral can bring value to your business today.

www.ringcentral.com

 

[kidwoo]

I'm more looking for specific experience with one of these companies. I can google and find a few but the one we tried before sucked ass (vonage). I'm looking for happy customers of other services essentially. Those can speak from experience if you will...

 

[Changleen]

I dropped this a few years ago and only use a cell now, but I used to pay the princely sum of $11 a month for a managed VOIP service that offered all this kind of thing; it came with ‘a landline number’ that could be forwarded to multiple phones with or without rules, voicemail etc. etc. You could even set up a ‘dial x for Dave’ type thing. Find one of the nerdier VOIP companies, I bet they can do all this.

 

[jonKranked]

I'm more looking for specific experience with one of these companies. I can google and find a few but the one we tried before sucked ass (vonage). I'm looking for happy customers of other services essentially. Those can speak from experience if you will...

i haven't tried the ms teams setup (despite my company having shifted full to teams) as i'm not issued a work cell phone, and i'm not using my personal cell phone for work stuff. however i have talked to people with company issued phones that have their work voip # setup to fwd to their phone through teams, and everyone says it works well. however i'm not sure this option is available through the free version of teams.

 

[kidwoo]

We don't need anything tethered off an existing email service, just the calls.

Also fuck microsoft (and google for that matter)

 

[stevew]

i hope a india call center never gets ahold of your number and calls you 20 to 30 times a day asking for non existent employees...drag...

 

[Fool]

We're using these assholes for our company. It works ok.

Contact Center. Voice. Video. Chat. Together.

8x8 helps businesses of all sizes empower employees and delight customers with a unified platform for contact center, business phone, video, and chat.

www.8x8.com

 

[velocipedist]

These guys have been around awhile.

VoIP Phone Service - Get #1 Internet Phone for Home + Business | Ooma

Ooma is a state of the art internet phone service provider for home and business, plus smart security systems. Call 877-353-5168 to learn more!

www.ooma.com

No idea if they will work for you.

 

[StiHacka]

I've heard good things about https://whitecourtesyphone.com.

 

[jimmydean]

When we moved offices we got rid of our desk phones and do everything through Teams. It rings to my laptop because I refuse to install Teams on my personal phone. But I can have it forward to my cell number and that works well.

 

[Westy]

1-800-WOO-NIPS

 

[eric strt6]

 

[HardtailHack]

If you go VOIP please don't buy Gigaset phones, I forgot how much Siemens disliked logic.

 

[Westy]

If you go VOIP please don't buy Gigaset phones, I forgot how much Siemens disliked logic.

If Siemens made a car the camshafts would be in the trunk and you would have to program the ECU, they would call it Totally Integrated Automotive.