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How much do you want to spend on a new smart phone?

The cost of flagship phones seems to increase year on year however if you don’t need the latest model you may find you can purchase a good smartphone for around £150. If you do have a big budget you could consider top of the range show-stoppers like the iPhone 6S or LG G4 however there are some great models like the 4G-enabled Motorola Moto E (2015) available at the fraction of the cost.

The capabilities of wireless IP phones have advanced since the first DECT standards were introduced by ETSI in 1992. IP DECT phones enable you to take advantage of VoIP technology with the added ability to roam from a single location. They are ideal for those constantly on the move from their desk such as warehouse operatives. We review the Yealink W52P DECT phone solution below.

Summary
The VVX310 and VVX410 Polycom VoiP phones are easy to use and solid workhorses for employees in any kind of business. The VVX500 model is a higher-end phone in the line-up and represents the latest in VoIP phone technology. These phones are sharp looking, high-tech and are reflective of Polycom's leadership in the marketplace. This series of Polycom phones will serve businesses well and take advantage of everything business VoIP has to offer.

If you are looking for the best Premium Broadsoft bundles in the marketplace you may want to consider Jola. Jola has recently launched three new bundles which include a Premium licence and a leading Polycom handset.

Sometimes a phone call just isn't enough when it comes to communicating with colleagues and customers. If you want to share information without meeting face to face, conferencing technology can facilitate. Please find below a review of some leading conferencing apps on the market.

Fuze Meeting Pro

For $69/ month workers can participate in meetings from every popular platform. It works particularly well for international businesses or businesses where a key members of staff travel. Fuze offers a basic but useful set of sharing tools. You can add content to the cloud at any point during the meeting to share on the screen or via a link. This virtual-meeting service can handle up to 12 video streams at once and has a visual chat feature for one-on-one side conversations. The video tool can display a variety of video file types, including HD video. 

There are over 5000 scaffolding companies registered in the UK employing over 30,000 people according to IBISWorld’s Scaffolding Services market research report, conducted in December last year. The report suggests market revenues of over £3bn with no companies having a dominent market share. Why are so many switching to hosted voice?

Local IT Support

Many local IT support companies supply cabling and PC support to local SMEs. Typically with several hundred customers, they operate within a couple of hours drive of the office but will go farther afield if required and for the right size job. A lot of their income comes from one-off projects however they have a reasonable base of customers that pay monthly to support their office IT.  Monthly recurring revenues help to grow the business and cover costs between projects.

1. We only offer SIM-only packages.

Jola has the best deal on Vodafone mobile SIMs neatly packaged - RegularSIM, LargeSIM and SuperSIM. We offer unlimited standard UK minutes, unlimited texts and 20GB of 4G data as well as inclusive minutes to non-geographic numbers. We partner with IT support and telecommunications companies with customers looing to break the tethering of airtime and handset contracts.

Fibre broadband is faster than copper broadband but is that the only benefit for your customers?

Access to hosted apps - work remotely as if in the office

Remote workers upgrading to fibre broadband can access useful business applications hosted in the cloud, such as Microsoft Office 365, JolaPhone cloud voice and Xero online accountancy packages. The benefit here is that they can work from home as if they were in the office, making and receiving calls and accessing, editing and saving corporate documents. Team members in the office can even see if their colleagues working from home are online or on the phone before making contact.

There are over 20,000 nursing homes in the UK providing residential care to older people, with an average of 40 residents per home. Qualified nurses provide care to residents, some of whom are eligible for NHS funding with the rest being privately funded.

Quality of care is a primary focus and some nursing homes are introducing IT to help improve communication.

One of Jola's Partners recently installed fibre broadband into a nursing home with four sites in Reading. They replaced the existing phone lines and installed four phones into each site. They also provided staff with tablets loaded with appropriate software to log medical notes. The care homes are now all on one phone system and key nursing staff use their mobiles as a desk extension to make and receive calls on the go.