I'm David Snyder, founder of RevTel. I'd like to introduce your business to our truly revolutionary product. Over 20 years ago, when I was managing my first business (a real estate brokerage) one of my greatest frustrations was the high cost of Telephone Service. I remember getting that phone bill every month and getting a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach knowing that the amount due always seemed excessive...but there was nothing I could do about it. The "Bell" company was the only option for phone service, and they charged for everything. In those days my small real estate company had 6 phone lines hooked to a very basic PBX. My phone bill looked like this per line:
Phone Line:
$39
Hunting:
$23.40
Federal FCC Subscriber Line Charge (SLC)
$6.50
USF Charge
$10
Touch Tone
$2
Total:
$80.90
My business needed 6 incoming lines in those days, so my total monthly basic phone bill was over $485! And the above didn't include long distance! Add another $500 per month for that.
Since that time little has changed. There are some local phone competitors, but they are merely reselling the same Big Phone Company phone lines.
The problem that all small businesses face is not just the cost of phone service. You must also buy expensive equipment in order to make the phones work the way you need them to. Features like voicemail, caller menu, find me/follow me, parking, transfer, call appearance, remote extensions, call recording, ring groups, etc. All of these are expensive and require buying equipment and hiring experts to configure it for you. A typical cost is about $2000 per phone extension in an office of 5 extensions; call it $10,000 for a small office, possibly much more for a larger office.
These real costs of communication have always bothered me as a small business owner. I've longed for a better way of communication, and in 1996 I founded VOLstate.net, an Internet Service Provider. There is no doubt that Internet access has transformed the way business is done. Every business needs an Internet connection, email, and a web site.
Owning a technology company makes me constantly ponder the problem of how to further reduce the communication costs for my business as well as for my clients businesses. It is wasteful for a company to have to purchase a T1 or DSL account for Internet access, and also buy "phone lines" for voice service, and have to still buy a PBX to use those phone lines. If there were a way to unify that communication need and make it all available over one high speed Internet connection that would be revolutionary! VOLstate could host the PBX on a web site, the phone lines could be virtualized over the Internet Connection and the business would have the most advanced features and lowest costs! Further, by leveraging VOLstate's existing data infrastructure we could provide all of these services to the local area... we already had in place 90% of the necessary infrastructure to proceed.
We are pleased to announce that we have unified all of these needs. The Revolution of telecom is here, RevTel is born!
Each RevTel customer will receive the following benefits:
* Local phone service with your current local phone number. * Reasonable, flat rate pricing. No "junk" hidden fees * Hunting, free * Caller ID, free * Voicemail, free * E911 Service * High Speed Internet included PBX features, free * Local real person technical support * Experts in the business. VOLstate has been here since 1996 * Remote extensions, bring your business phone home with you * Roaming, bring your phone with you when you travel * Multiple offices? Our solution is IDEAL for this!
As you can see, the communication revolution is on. I've saved the best part for last:
You can get this integrated, advanced communication package including local phone service, long distance phone service, and high speed Internet access from THE local Internet experts for less than you are paying now for these separate services!
