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I highly
recommend it. Not only is it great for my US
customers to have a US phone
number to call our UK staff,
but I can also Skype our developers in w:st="on">India. I bought phones from 3 for
each of our employees so we can talk on Skype free of charge all the time.
Mohammad

face="Times New Roman">On Mar 31, 2009 3:49 PM,
"Barry Bridges" <[address removed]>
wrote:

style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Hello,

Does anyone have any experience of using Skype for Business as their primary
phone system within their start-up?

My business is really taking off and I’m now bringing on board my first members
of staff. As part of this we’re kindly being housed by a friend’s company, but
no phones are being provided and I’m looking for an effective and cheap system
to use for our internal and mobile phone network that we can take with us and
scale in the future.

My plan is to provide staff with mobiles but use Skype for Business as the
primary switchboard service: i.e. SkypeIn will be the main business telephone
number, then use something like Pretty May Call Centre for Skype ( href="http://www.prettymay.net/callcenter/index.htm" target="_blank">http://www.prettymay.net/callcenter/index.htm)
or On State to handle and divert calls internally. If I can provide staff with
skypephones then this will cut out a further portion of call costs and allow
skype to be the main calling system throughout, avoiding higher rates.

Has anyone used Skype in this way and how have they found it? As a reasonably
frugal start-up I’d rather not have to invest in quite expensive phone systems
or contract packages (especially BT!) so thought this might be a good way to
keep costs low. Any thoughts – or am I creating more work than it’s worth?

Thanks,

Barry.

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Bridges

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