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 work. 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 $2,000 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 look for ways 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 still have to buy a PBX to use those phone lines. Our RevTel service unifies those communication tools. With RevTel, instead of buying excess phone line capacity for the rare occasions when the last voice line is actually used we eliminate the need for individual phone lines. Also, instead of wasting Internet bandwidth that mostly goes unused, we run your voice service over that same connection. Instead of spending thousands of dollars on an expensive PBX, we eliminate that cost by hosting the PBX in our data center.
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 * Caller ID * Voicemail * Voicemail to Email * Integrated Desktop Faxing * Call Recording * Call Detail Records * E911 Service * High Speed Internet * Local, real person technical support * Experts in the business - VOLstate has been here since 1996 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!
