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Why TalkTalk Business?
Why TalkTalk Business?
We’ve got over 25 years’ experience supporting businesses of all sizes, giving them the right communications platform to thrive.
Next Generation Network
We’ve invested a huge amount in developing our Next Generation Network and it’s become one of the largest, most connected all-IP network in the UK.
Awards
Whether it’s our award winning team, our industry leading products or our exceptional service, we’ve been winning awards for the last two decades.
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News & Insight
Blogs
- The contactless customer: A more hospitable approach to digital transformation
- The full fibre future is now: Is retail ready for the big switch off?
- The road to success: How digital solutions are whipping the logistics industry into shape
- Why should your business consider switching to 10GB ethernet?
- Women in Leadership
- 2022 will drive a new need for speed
- Reflecting on COP26
- It’s time to get back to business
- Cardiff: An ultrafast city
- The connectivity market is changing fast: it’s time to upgrade
- TalkTalk is one the best places to work in the UK!
- TalkTalk Business: Finalists in Comms Council UK Awards 2021
- Business Full Fibre can drive post-lockdown success
- The new need for speed
- Ofcom report: UK digital dependency driven to new heights during lockdown
- Business Full Fibre - the what, where and why of full fibre
- Ultrafast Business Fibre: what it is and why you might need it
- Ultrafast Business Fibre is your back to business game changer
- Hybrid Working
- Our approach to customer service
- Supporting hybrid workers with our new cloud-based unified communications offering
- Why does Business Ultrafast Fibre matter to my business?
- Business New Year’s Resolutions
- FTTP FTW! New Research: Full Fibre Most Energy-Efficient Connectivity Method
- Five myths and misconceptions about Business Ultrafast Fibre
- Getting up to speed – Everything you need to know about Business Ultrafast Fibre
- Ready to supercharge your connectivity?
- Controlling costs is just one reason to move to cloud
- The New Business Wi-Fi Hub
- Business as unusual - making homeworking work for the new normal
- Working from home - is residential broadband up to the job?
- What’s the value of an empty desk? How homeworking could help balance the books
- Mitel Platinum Partner - We did it again!!
- Get an hour back every day
- What is a Leased Line?
- One thing you never hear in the office
- Prepare for the workplace of 2025 today: 3 simple steps
- 5 things you should consider before moving to the cloud
- What will the future of collaboration look like?
- The Northern Agenda
- How will machines unleash your business’ potential?
- Are UK workforces ready for the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’?
- What we learnt at Accelerate Her 2017
- Saying goodbye to legacy systems - ensuring a migration is trouble-free
- 5 tips to for a better work-life balance
- How our network investment helps digital transformation
- Telco forecast: what to expect in 2019?
- 4 connectivity options to consider when building a resilient network
- Hosted Voice – It’s time to make the move
- 3 reasons why you should consider Business VoIP in the next 6 months
- 4 top tips for hiring the best staff
- Businesses in the Gigabit fast lane
- A beginner's guide to CPaaS
- Soapworks - A home to be proud of
- 5 TED talks you won't want to miss
- 5 reasons to consider an IPVPN solution
- You’re busy right? But are you as productive as you think?
- Collaborating with Openreach to clear Britain’s Ethernet installation backlog
- The Future of Retail
- World Cup 2018: Watch it, tweet it, stream it
- 4 tips to thrive on Black Friday and Cyber Monday
- Flexibility and connectivity for the modern era
- Helping Manchester based SMEs succeed in 2021
- CityFibre Ethernet Access Circuit Promotion
- Mitel 10 Reasons
- Nobody can slow your business down with a dedicated leased line
- It’s time to get back to business
- Should Direct Internet Access be at the heart of your business?
News and PR
- We’re finalists in the UK Complaint Handling Awards 2022!
- Champions
- Small Businesses Buoyant in Run up to Christmas
- Trustpilot
- Join us in making the climate crisis history
- Lockdown Lessons
- Mental Health and Wellbeing: Helping our Colleagues
- Challenge 2030: How We're Helping Make the Climate Crisis History
- TalkTalk Business Critical Infrastructure Update
- How to help your staff get the most from their home connectivity
- TalkTalk Business picks up “Best Business” award at ITSPA this year
- Partner Restructure
- Britain's businesses prepare for hyper- speed
- Employees want tech to improve productivity
- 1 in 3 British employees expect more workplace flexibility in the next decade
- Peace of mind matters. So why leave your resiliency to chance?
- Only 1 in 5 workers see AI as a threat
- Are businesses ready to cope with tech advances?
- Preliminary FY17 Results
- TalkTalk Business Awarded Mitel Platinum Partner Status
- UK workers say OMG to RFID chip tracking
- Spend on Small Business Saturday up 15% to £717 Million
- TalkTalk Business launches new suite of Cloud-ready connectivity products
- TalkTalk Business appoints Duncan Gooding as Chief Operating Officer
- TalkTalk launches FibreNation
- TalkTalk Business first to launch business-grade broadband packages to address huge surge in working from home
- A rapid response: how we’ve delivered critical connections during COVID-19
- The TalkTalk Business Referral Scheme: How It Works
The non techie guide
A rise in web-savvy Brits has led to a surge in the number of calls people make over the internet through popular communication platforms such as Whatsapp, Skype and FaceTime. These tools have given us the ability to communicate with people all over the world without suffering from a huge phone bill at the end of the month. That’s why it was no surprise for us to discover that by 2016 more than 45% of UK businesses had already adopted business grade Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) or other IP Voice services at work.
The jargon explained
But what do we mean by IP Voice and why has it become such a big deal? Put simply, IP Voice means that users can make calls over the internet - so there’s no need to provide landlines for every phone in your business. Instead you can use your resources more efficiently and run your calls, emails, web browsing over the same connection. This brings many benefits so if you haven’t thought about IP Voice yet, then take a look at why you should consider switching to this way of working too.
1. There’s savings to be made
We know first-hand that there are considerable financial savings to be made from replacing traditional landline connections with internet based telephony. In partnership with Censuswide, we commissioned a survey of 1,000 decision makers from UK business, and found that 96% of current internet based telephony customers reported a cost saving, with 1 in 4 claiming they’d saved more than 50% on their old voice package. This is due to cheaper call rates and the fact that many of them were able to reduce the number of permanent phone lines they needed.
2. Expansion and location
Research reveals that many businesses with traditional ISDN phone services find it hard to re-route their existing phone numbers quickly and cheaply when they relocate. The reality is this is not an issue with internet based services as your numbers are not tied to a physical or geographical location, (as it’s based over the internet), it’s easy to take your number with you wherever you go.
Moreover, for businesses looking to expand their reach internationally without the cost of setting up offices overseas, internet based telephony allows them to set up International Numbers for outbound calls. Of those we surveyed, 33% of small businesses believe they will expand internationally in the next year – but we all know that setting up in new markets can be an expensive – and risky – undertaking. Because IP Voice allows you to set up local numbers quickly and easily, it’s a great way to trial setting up operations in new countries at a much lower cost.
3. You’ve got a backup plan
39% of businesses reported losing their telephony service in the past 12 months. These costs really do add up, as we found that each outage lasted on average 8 hours, and cost a massive £24k per hour.
IP Voice means you can quickly re-direct calls to different locations should the unexpected happen, drastically reducing the impact to your business.
Or better still you can have pre-set routing plans in place, so the moment the IP Phone system detects a fault, it re-routes it automatically. Often before you even realised there was a problem.
Make a good call for your future
In order to maintain a competitive edge, decision makers need to consider internet based services now if they haven’t already. When company purse strings are tighter than ever, wasting money on dropped calls and expensively re-routing phone lines is easy to avoid. IP Voice gives businesses large and small better flexibility, improved value for money and a future-proofed system that you don’t have to worry about – leaving you free to focus on the things that really matter.
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