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In what way is this better than any of the other hosted PBX solutions out there? I don't see the novelty here. Even the "advanced" stuff, like voice mail transcription, have been standard features at virtual PBXs for years now.
In what way is this better than any of the other hosted PBX solutions out there? I don't see the novelty here. Even the "advanced" stuff, like voice mail transcription, have been standard features at virtual PBXs for years now.
that is the saddest looking screenshot.
Are they using twilio/ tropo on their back end? Just curious
It looks like a rebranded OpenVBX which runs off of Twilio. If anyone has an account, it'd be easy to check... search for an available number in TellFi for a given area code and also do the same search in Twilio. If you find the same number in both places, there's your answer.
I have found that many have clunky interfaces that were not easy to set up and configure AND once configured it was hard to go back and change something.
It certainly is nice to have a service that allows ringing multiple phones, and has better support for multiple lines unlike Google Voice, but for now I will stick with Google Voice for my business for the one or two calls I get, as it is simple to use and free.
RingCentral was nice in that it provided an iPhone application and made it extremely simple to dial-out using your 1-800 number from that application, but the iPhone app did not provide access to contacts that were already on the phone [2] and required setting them up through their system with no easy way to sync them (all of my business contacts are stored on my business'es Google Mail account, I don't want to duplicate that).
[1]: http://www.osnn.net/submitted-news/99624-ringcentral-virtual... (A site I am an administrator on) [2]: I reviewed their services in March of 2010.
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It looks like a rebranded OpenVBX which runs off of Twilio. If anyone has an account, it'd be easy to check... search for an available number in TellFi for a given area code and also do the same search in Twilio. If you find the same number in both places, there's your answer.
It's not. We built this from the ground-up.
In what way is this better than any of the other hosted PBX solutions out there? I don't see the novelty here. Even the "advanced" stuff, like voice mail transcription, have been standard features at virtual PBXs for years now.
In what way is this better than any of the other hosted PBX solutions out there? I don't see the novelty here. Even the "advanced" stuff, like voice mail transcription, have been standard features at virtual PBXs for years now.
Their site says: More dependable & better quality than other services TellFi works with the phones you have. So, unlike VoIP, you still receive calls if your Internet connection is down. Which seems to happen to everyone from time to time. Plus, call quality is always great. This answers the main objection to virtual PBX that our business had.
In what way is this better than any of the other hosted PBX solutions out there? I don't see the novelty here. Even the "advanced" stuff, like voice mail transcription, have been standard features at virtual PBXs for years now.
I wonder if this is a sign that YC is admitting too many startups and that the company-advisor ratio has fallen out of whack. This space is extremely crowded, and a lot of companies are already doing it very well (and cheaper).