Lower Your Organization's Phone and Internet Expenditure with a T1 Line

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Why think about a T1 line for your company?

If your organization has grown over the years, you've probably added more phone lines to accommodate an increased staff. This is a familiar approach and works acceptably up to a certain point.

The expense of all these personal phone lines can swiftly surpass the price of a single T1 line that can process the equivalent calling load. In fact, if your business has more than 8 phone lines or you are paying more than $750 in monthly phone and Internet expenses, you should evaluate a T1 line.

What exactly is a T1 line and how can it help your business?

A T1 line is a digital line with a bandwidth that can carry 24 simultaneous outside calls. A share of this bandwidth can alternately be committed to the Internet.

Let's see what this means for a hypothetical company. Let's say you have 100 people in your organization, and each staff member has a personal phone on their desk. You're currently paying for 100 individual phone lines plus Internet expenses. If you usually expect up to 10% of your work force to be on the phone at any given point in time they will in general be making 10 external calls at the same time.

Because a full T1 line can conduct 24 simultaneous calls, you could allocate half your bandwidth to phone calls (allowing 12 concurrent calls) and half your bandwidth to Internet connections. This would replace all your individual phone lines and your Internet costs.

The price of a T1 line depends on a couple of considerations. One thing is the distance your business is from your local phone company's customer office. Your T1 service is a dedicated connection between your location and the customer office. So, this distance is an essential consideration.

The other factor in the cost of a dedicated line is the number of vendors offering this service in your neighborhood. Typical of most business transactions, the more suppliers there are for a service, the more competitive the costs will be.

You can normally obtain a dedicated line for $300 to $750 per month, again, depending on those two considerations.

If you are not ready for a full T1 line you may well be able to get a fractional T1 line. There may well be another company near by that is also searching for alternatives to a large number of individual phone lines, or has a full T1 line but does not need it's complete bandwidth. If this is the case, you can probably divide up the bandwidth of a T1 line. This service is called a fractional T1 line.

So, if your business is one of the many who are trying to cut back on operating expense while maintaining their existing level of service, you should consider how to decrease both phone and Internet charges. A dedicated T1 line may be the answer you are searching for.

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Bob Sherman assists growing firms find the best costs on T1 lines and provides you an online T1 line price service.

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