VoIP Progression in New Zealand Born Out of 2011 Earthquakes

While the magnitude of earthquakes can leave tremendous death and destruction in their wake, some good things come out of them from time to time.

Whether it is strangers pulling together or improved warning systems and how to deal with the aftermath of earthquakes, it seems something can always be learned from them.

Such is the case in New Zealand following last year’s Canterbury earthquakes that left more than 180 people dead and countless individuals injured.

As reported recently by Stuff.co.nz, new business phone systems company Phone VoIP came about as a result of the deadly quakes. The company’s founders believed it should do so then in a setting where fibre is becoming more of a choice over the older copper telephony links.

According to the company’s owner and sales manager, they both believe in the Internet-backed digital PABX phone system. With the PABX system, a business can put in place systems just as switching to extensions, logging each and every call and voice mail.

The duo also pointed out that among the highlights of a Phone VoIP system are major savings on call expenses of up to 60 percent. As they see it, “VoIP is here. After all people are beginning to understand what it is ... that you can use the internet to these phone calls and you don't have to pay these horrendous prices ... 99 percent of our business is building telephone systems.”

Phone VoIP deploys 3CX to offer a VoIP solution for use in a Microsoft Windows setting, with the company noting that the switch from an analogue telephony to digital telephony will be major.

It was also noted that the VoIP system was a good match with the earthquake environment of Christchurch given the fact that modern optical fibre – which offers a base for the Internet – had made it through the destruction.