Office to mobile
Why are we paying so much on Office to Mobile calls?
The reason that companies pay high pence per minute rates to call mobiles from their office phones is due to your fixed line company charging you to connect to the GSM (mobile) network, thus leading to increased call rates (often as much or more than 10pence per minute); as well as this more often than not they will be charging a minimum fee or 'connection charge' too meaning that a call to a mobile which is only a few seconds long can still cost as much as 10pence. Even if you call a mobile, hear a voicemail greeting and terminate the call, you have made the connection to the GSM network and thus will incur the charges set out by your fixed line provider.
Centralcom can offer the solution to this by having all of your GSM call types (mobile numbers) INITIALISED on the GSM network, thus removing the above mentioned costs.
How this is done is by making these calls route through mobile sim cards which will enable your company to use free bundled minutes to any mobile number. These sim cards are used in what is often reffered to as FCT or Gateway equipment.
Centralcom arranges the mobile contract & lease or purchase of the 'FCT' equipment at a rate to suit your companies needs and this monthly rate covers the amount of minutes you require each month for your mobile calls.
This in turn reduces your current mobile call rate from what is usually in excess of 9pence per minute, down to the equivelant of around 5pence per minute or less.
To see exactly how much we can reduce your minute rate / monthly spend by go to our 'call calculator'.
How does this all work?
Our PRI (Primary Rate), ISDN30e FCT’s enable up to 30 simultaneous calls.The ideal cost saving solution for any medium sized business through to Call-centres and large corporate organisations. Voice and data traffic can be routed, as well as the ability to browse the internet or send and receive emails, faxes and SMS Messages from your PC through a GPRS or CSD data connection. Our range of Primary Rate FCT’s deliver the complete cost-saving solution.
Sophisticated Routing
Thanks to the sophisticated Least Cost Routing (LCR) in all our PRI FCT’s, all calls are always routed in the cheapest possible way. As a call passes through the FCT, the LCR selects the cheapest way for the call to be connected. For example, in its simplest form, a call to a mobile phone will be routed via a SIM Card to the GSM network whereas a landline to landline call will be for warded to the PSTN network.
Dynamic Management
With SIM Management, you can rest assured you won’t be receiving those huge bills any longer. SIM Management allows SIM’s to be switched off when inclusive minutes on the tariff are reached - by programming your tariff information in the Fixed Cellular Terminal’s memory; you can set when and how SIM cards are used.
Flexible Connectivity
All of our PRI FCT’s come with 2x ISDN Primary Rate Interfaces allowing you to install the device between the PABX and PSTN. This eliminates the need to install an additional PRI port in your PABX. Moreover, you do not need to reconfigure the PABX to route mobile calls to the FCT - all calls pass through the unit and thanks to the sophisticated least cost routing, the Fixed Cellular Terminal intercepts which calls are to be routed via GSM and which are to be routed by PSTN.
