Moving office is a stressful time. You have decorators to arrange, furniture to move, files to transfer, and all while keeping your customers happy.
VoIP users have the flexibility to take their telecoms set up wherever they go. As long as they have an internet connection, all the phones will just unplug from the old office, and plug in when in the new one. As the provider has all the details of the system (extension numbers, call routing etc) then the system will behave exactly the same in the new office as it did in the old one.
Where your phone is physically based makes no difference to the system (we like to call this a platform). After all, your LinkedIn account doesn’t care where you are – you just log-in from any internet connection. A VoIP system is just the same.
All users of a Hosted (‘Cloud-based’ is just another way of saying ‘Hosted’ by the way) VoIP service can take advantage of this. Many people change where they work on a day-to-day or even minute-by-minute basis. Need to work from home for the rest of the afternoon? Simply unplug the phone from the internet, and plug in at home (although you can use a smartphone app, or buy two phones, if you want to save the hassle of carrying a phone with you). It is this flexibility which makes VoIP so appealing when it comes to managing an office move.
If you are considering relocating your office, then moving to VoIP would be an ideal starting point. You can transfer existing numbers to your new VoIP account (termed “Porting”), and acquire new numbers with your new area code.
We assist our customers in any way we can, including assisting with the transtition to a VoIP system, and helping to move and relocate existing equipment. We have also helped by specifying, supplying and setting up new equipment. Obviously, we can only provide this level of service to customers who are physically located near us, but we are happy to offer the benefit of our experience to customers based anywhere.
To read more about SureVoIP’s experience with Porting numbers, please see our Number Porting article.
As the UK industry regulatory body, Ofcom offer their own advice on Number Porting.