However, in today’s market, many people rely on VoIP telephone services using a technology such as SIP trunking (Session Initiation Protocol) that relies on your Internet connection to produce those same calls. Ahh, those were the days! Maybe one line had an outage, but you still had others to depend upon. Once upon a time a business had many different phone lines (also known as POTS or plain ‘ole telephone service), or perhaps a digital T1 line that was connected to an internal phone system that handled the work of connecting and relaying phone calls in and out of your office. Do You Realize Just How Reliant You are on Your Internet Connection?įirst, do you stop to think just how reliant your business is on Internet connectivity? Telephone Let’s break down the real issues and what they could cost you, to measure how important your Internet connection is. Over the years I’ve received enough frantic calls from business owners, IT managers and office managers when their Internet service went down, to know it can be a business catastrophe when you have no connectivity - or you have extremely slow Internet service - for hours or days on end.īesides the monthly access and service fees you pay to your Internet service provider (“ISP”), there are other less obvious - yet potentially more costly - expenses.
And the difference between a business class of service and residential Internet service is often glossed over due to expense – but it shouldn’t be. The least expensive services may be so for a reason - slow speed, limited support, and other restrictions. You might be tempted to think all Internet service is the same.
In business, an unreliable Internet connection costs dollars and cents.
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