Office Phones

As you're considering office phones for your business or office, begin the process by figuring out how many offices you have in your business and which ones need telephones. Office telephones are a critical component to any business. It is important to know exactly what you and your business needs. Remember to include extra necessities like faxes, credit card machines, and Internet connections. In order to decide what kind of phone you need in each location, determine the function for that location. For example:

• Do you need to see each telephone line or will one button do?
• Is it a speaker phone for a conference room?
• Will an executive with a secretary or a receptionist be using this telephone?
• Do you need a less expensive telephone for courtesy calls in a lobby or telephone calls from the break room?

Next, decide how many lines you need. In general you need one line for every two or three people. Remember that extra lines not being used can add up to hundreds of extra dollars every month.

Now, as far as obtaining phones for your office there are many companies offering business phones. One of the sites listing multiple manufacturers and retailers of telephone for offices is Look Smart (Looksmart.com). Buy Me Buy Me (Buymebuyme.com) is a retailer with numerous phone options in single line, multi-line, and PBX categories. Atelephonesystem.com has many AT&T, Lucent, and Avaya telephones (Atelephonesystem.com).

If you have a business that uses remote locations, you might want to consider getting a Globalstar satellite phone to use in your remote office.

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