Panasonic offers Cloud PBX instead of hardware

Panasonic is a world leading manufacturer of PBX hardware for small and medium businesses. And this company is quite satisfied with today's state of things. But the market dictates new terms: the cheap virtual PBX are gradually replacing the expensive hardware systems. So Panasonic is introducing its own SaaS service Panasonic Cloud, which is available only in US so far. It's a fully featured telephone system delivered from the Panasonic cloud. However, unlike most virtual PBX providers, Panasonic doesn't want to completely replace equipment by the service. In order to use the Panasonic Cloud company should buy at least one base station and one wireless ip-phone. The number of phones can be increased to 8. And all of them are programmed to work only with Panasonic Cloud, and if the company wants to move to another SIP PBX provider, it will not be able to use these phones.



Of course, IP-phones for this service are quite cheap ($80). And you don't need to configure the phones to work with the service. Everything is already configured. The cost of the service - $40/month per line (phone number) + the cost of international calls. Functionality of the service includes call handling, IVR, fax, voicemail, 5-way conference calling.

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