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Building Partnerships with Telecommunications Solutions
One of priorities here at Mills Communications is to find the telecommunications solutions which will enhance your business, allowing you to be connected but not feel like you’re inundated with information flowing from a number of different directions. The key to your success is our success and with the quickly revolving and ever changing world of communications, we’ll work with you to streamline your business…
Wireless Telephones in the 1940’s
One of my passions is obviously learning about wireless telephones and other forms of communications. One of my other passions, which isn’t quite as big, is history. As of late, I seem to be delving into the history of communications. Last week was a finding out about telephone exchanges, and that blog news can be found here. This week I thought I’d find some information…
Unified Communications: Unified Communicator Advanced
We have already talked about the wonders of collaborating Unified Communications with your business phone systems. But have we told you Mitel also offers Unified Communicator Advanced? What is the difference you might ask? UC Advanced offers improved efficiency, improved communication choices, improved mobility, and improved integration options. UC Advanced harmonizes presence and availability, instant messaging, audio conferencing, and web and video collaboration with the…
From Telephone EXchanges to Digital Phone Systems
As I am sure you know, phones and other forms of communication have changed over the years. From telephone exchanges and analog to digital phone systems with a VoIP core system phones have come a long way, and they continue to evolve to meet our everyday needs. Over the weekend I was watching some older movies, classics from the early 1930’s to 1950’s. I do…
Wireless Telephones: The Future from 1950
On December 27, 1950, five years, a few months and days after the end of World War II, the Lumberton, North Carolina Robesonian newspaper ran an Associated Press article in which experts predicted how we will live in the year 2000. This prediction included wireless telephones and transmissions, voice activated homes, and even possibly what they thought would be high definition television. Here are three…
VoIP Phone Service: What is VoIP?
VoIP Phone Service: Toll Cost-from my office to remote workers small or home office
If you are a small business with one main office but a lot of remote workers then new VoIP phone service could save money and add efficiency. Without VoIP you have a cost every time a call is made from the office to the remote worker and from the remote worker to…
VoIP Phone Service: What is VoIP?
VoIP Phone Service: Toll Cost-from my office to another of my offices
If you are a small business with multiple offices and have a substantial amount of telephone traffic between your locations then there may be some justification for installing a VoIP telephone system. If you already have a data connection between the offices or if all of the offices have an internet connection then…
VoIP Phone Service: What is VoIP?
VoIP Phone Service: Toll Cost-from my business to other businesses
If you are a small business with a single office location you will need to get telephone service from someone (LEC, CLEC, ISP, Cellular, etc) to be able to make telephone calls to other businesses. All of those providers will charge you something, on a per line basis, to utilize their services. Installing a VoIP…
VoIP Phone Service: What is VoIP?
VoIP Phone Service
Most companies believe that they need to upgrade their internal telephone systems to VoIP. As a premise based equipment provider this should be good news for us but our long standing commitment to helping our customers do what is best for their business forces us to go a bit deeper.
What specific benefit are you hoping to gain by making a change…
Unified Communications | Reducing your Dependence
What is Unified Communications?
Unified communications is not a single product. It is a set of products that give the user a reliable interface that runs across multiple devices and media types. By integrating real time communication, such as: instant messaging, like texting and chat; video conferencing, interacting via a two-way video and audio transmission simultaneously; VoIP, voice communications over the Internet; and speech…