| Wireless, the word many businesses and schools are | | | | explore it as thoroughly as they feel they need to. It's a |
| beginning to eye with more and more interest. The | | | | very hands-on approach that seems to be doing a |
| OmniPCX Enterprise seems to offer exactly what it | | | | great deal of good. The hotel has managed to |
| sounds like: the ability for a business to function without | | | | integrate the system so well that they offer mobile |
| the need for all of those frustrating wires. It offers | | | | phones in each room, so that a guest can take their |
| features such as incoming/outgoing message | | | | room phone with them anywhere on hotel grounds - |
| management, call logging, visual mailbox, and call by skill. | | | | that way a trip to breakfast doesn't mean any missed |
| This system even lets you call out from, and receive | | | | calls. |
| calls to, your computer. | | | | Top Features: |
| Communications for Businesses: | | | | More handy features for a corporation include |
| The company offers both a desktop and mobile | | | | voicemail, fax, and specialized greeting messages |
| phone with neat features like sms facilities, multiple | | | | depending on user status. There are even some made |
| languages, a log of calls, and headset capabilities. It | | | | especially for hotels - do not disturb, room service in |
| seems like they took everything great about mobile | | | | the guest's language and even customized wake-up |
| phones and put that into a desktop phone, and then | | | | service. The website for this system chose to list ten |
| took the best features from the mobile phones and | | | | of their most sought-after features: voicemail, daytime |
| made them better. In fact, there are over twenty | | | | after hours messages with nifty options such as |
| functions that can be performed by both phones. | | | | "select a button" and automated call holding, VoIP |
| Already have a Blackberry? Alcatel made sure their | | | | compatibility, special hold messages, call transfer, |
| software was compatible with that as well, so you | | | | speed dial, speaker phone, warranties, conference |
| only have to carry one phone with you. | | | | calls, and headset compatibility. |
| Many Uses Of This System: | | | | Can You Afford This? |
| This system is not made just for big corporations. It is | | | | So how does one pay for a system like this? Alcatel |
| also used for schools, and even a fully wireless hotel in | | | | Phone systems come with the option to rent, lease, |
| China. One wonderful feature is conferencing, which | | | | buy, or bundle. The price looks like it starts at the one |
| allows instructors to teach home bound children and | | | | thousand USD range and goes up from there |
| offer their students visual aides to help them | | | | depending on how many lines the business needs, but |
| understand the material. Some schools are even | | | | with so many options for payment and such a wide |
| integrating a similar method using laptops, trying to let | | | | range of features, that doesn't seem too hefty for a |
| the students access the information immediately and | | | | solid business. |