Can cloud-based phones really cut your bills by over 50%?

One of our retail partners asked us to prove the savings. So we reviewed our customers’ old phone bills to see how much they saved. And we built a savings calculator so you can see for yourself.

For years, we’ve been saying that our cloud-based voice services, or Cloud PBX, can save businesses up to 50 percent on their phone costs.

Recently, one of our retail partners challenged us to prove it.

So we did.

We took a sampling of 19 small business “pre-customers” that had received firm price quotes for our Cloud PBX service as of December 2014. These businesses were considering replacing their phone systems. We asked them for copies of their monthly bills from their current phone services providers, and compared what we found there to our Cloud PBX pricing.

Our study compared bills from companies that include:

Business phone service providers

AT&T • CenturyLink • YipTel
Integra • Verizon • Charter

Business phone systems

Alcatel-Lucent • Allworx
Panasonic • Samsung

For the 19 customers, we averaged out the monthly service costs for the following:

Fee per line
Local calling fees per line
Long distance fees per line
Carrier fees per line (not including local, state and federal charges that Intermedia and all carriers collect)

In addition, we averaged the upfront costs of an on-premises PBX phone system, plus the deskphones themselves. “We focused on systems that support up to 15 lines.

Here’s what we found.

Compare Service Costs

Competitors’ average cost

Intermedia’s cost

Savings

Service costs

Per month, per line,
including fees

$66.51

$31.49

53%

Compare Hardware Costs

Competitors’ average cost

Intermedia’s cost

Savings

Hardware costs

PBX system and
deskphones, 5-10 lines

$3,500 - 4,000

$0

100%

How did we arrive at these numbers?

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