The graph below outlines what these hard savings really mean for a single office with 50 users.
No Phone System Purchase
Traditional in-house phone systems cost between $1,200 and $2,000 per station. As a managed service the M5 IP Phone System eliminates the need for a costly PBX, significantly lowering initial and recurring costs.Free Calls Between Offices
Calls between your offices connected to M5 are free. With around 70% of calls businesses making being between their own offices this represents real dollar savings all day every day.Lower Phone Bills
M5 commands the buying power to let you take advantage of the call rates big business enjoys every day. Against Telstra retail business rates this means savings of between 30-50%. The more interstate and overseas calls you make the higher the savings, hard dollar savings.STD Toll Bypass
M5 allows you to call interstate for local call rates. If you are in Melbourne and calling a party in Sydney, M5 will land the call as a local call in Sydney not an STD call, passing all the savings on to you. Currently offered between Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and Brisbane.No Conference Call Bills
The M5 IP Phone System has ad-hoc and dial-in conferencing built in at no additional cost. Therefore you will never pay a conference call fee again.Free moves adds and changes
On average an employee will move desks or be replaced once every 12 months, costing you real dollars to bring in a technician for patching and re-programming of the system. Depending on your system this can equate to $125-$200 per change. Based on IP technology and supported 24x7 by the M5 Support Team you will never need to pay for moves, adds and changes again.The graph below outlines these hard savings for a company with two sites with 50 and 20 users respectively.
Soft Savings
As well as these hard dollar savings there are a number of soft saving opportunities such as:
- location independent switchboard operator resourcing
- business process resourcing across locations
- line consolidation
- extension portability across locations
- no requirement for in-house expertise
- roaming user capabilities
- integration opportunities with other business systems
