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As a business owner, you have heard about the short and long-term savings VoIP communications can offer your business. You are even thinking about switching, but you have some questions. We have compiled some of the most common questions people ask when considering moving to a VoIP provider. There are many advantages — major cost savings, maximum flexibility and increased productivity in switching to VoIP. This blog post will arm you with the knowledge you need to make an informed decision.

You’ve heard the phrase if you can’t beat them, join them. Well, telcos are taking this literally as many are shifting their focus from battling OTT services to partnering with them. In fact, an interest in providing OTT-type services is on the rise, with 36% of mobile operators partnering with OTT providers last year.

So, just why are telcos uniting with OTT services? Because competing with the features and competitive prices of OTT apps is nearly impossible for operators, but a partnership can prove to benefit their bottom line, as well as offer a few awesome perks to the people who keep them in business -- the consumer!

For the first time ever, more than half of the U.S. population owns a smartphone, giving operators much to smile about. More smartphone users means more calling and data plans and potential for increased revenue, but what happens when consumers bypass their carriers' services by using OTT apps? Operators lose money.  

OTT communications providers offer mobile apps that utilize an operator's infastructure and customer base to offer consumers text and phone access at a lower cost than most operators can offer. So, how can operators reclaim this lost revenue? With a partner of course! In an effort to show carriers just how beneficial an OTT partner can be, we've narrowed down the top 4 struggles operators face when their customers use OTT apps to bypass their services, and how they can overcome them by teaming with a partner.

OTT communications apps may sound like a super high tech term, but you probably use one of these every day. In fact, 276.8 million people used OTT apps on their smartphones in 2012, and by 2016 1.32 billion are projected to be saving money on their cell bills each month by putting these apps to work!

Over the last few years, the popularity of OTT services among mobile consumers has skyrocketed. Just how big is the market you wonder? Well, the experts over at mobilesquared, a leading provider of insight and intelligence on the mobile sector, have the answer.

Mobilesquared put together this 3-year-forecast outlining how the OTT services market will grow throughout 2017. The full report is chock full of interesting info and stats! We pulled a few of our favorites to give you an overview of just how many people are saving money and staying connected with OTT services like Voxox.

Here are our favorite 10 OTT services stats....

Mobile consumers love OTT services, and for good reason! Mobile OTT services like messaging and calling apps offer the same functionality as those from service providers, but they are typically much cheaper (or free!) and come with some awesome features that surpass the basic calling and SMS capabilities of traditional carriers.

As the owner of microbusiness, the quality of your employees is especially important because although they are few in number they bear enormous responsibility. So in your quest for recruiting and retaining the best and brightest, you’ll want to pick from as large a pool as possible and not limit your choices by making your company less attractive to any particular demographic.

No matter what your product or service, if you are early in the process of launching a new startup company chances are you have more than a few items on your “to do” list. While many of those tasks are surely important, we’d like to humbly recommend you start by harnessing the power of an enterprise PBX system using our new cloud-based phone service—the aptly named Cloud Phone.

Why? Because by leveraging this new application you may be able to cross several other items—like effectively budgeting seed money or projecting a professional image—off your list. Need more proof? Here are the top three reasons to start your business off with Cloud Phone: 

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Just like its fluffy white namesake before a thunderstorm, the cloud business solutions market is expanding rapidly. In fact, a recent report from market research firm ResearchMoz projects the sector will explode from $34.7 billion in 2013 to $123 billion in 2019, with a large chunk of the growth owing to the businesses adoption of cloud-based phone and communications systems.