Agents Report Accelerating Sales of Airband’s Hosted VoIP Services

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Airband Communications, Inc., the industry’s largest fixed-wireless company for businesses in the U.S., today reported a doubling of its Channel Program voice sales during the past six months due to customers’ preference for hosted voice solutions over traditional on-premise phone systems.

“Our customers want all of the bells and whistles of a new voice system, but without the high capital cost. With Airband’s Hosted VoIP solution, they get exactly what they are looking for, all from one provider”

Airband is one of the few service providers that can deliver hosted VoIP services with an integrated local loop, Internet access and business continuity solutions over two independent networks, wired and wireless. Businesses that choose Airband’s hosted VoIP service benefit from added functionality and flexibility, and a lower total cost of ownership because Airband eliminates the capital expense and complexity of managing an on-site phone system by hosting and managing the service on its VoIP switching platform.

“We look at our clients’ total cost of ownership, and time and time again, we see that hosted solutions are significantly less expensive than on-premise solutions. Together with Airband we are winning a significant amount of business because our clients are looking for cost-effective, feature-rich hosted voice services. And Airband’s offering is a complete, managed turnkey solution,” said Charles Bogart, president and CEO of RealCom Solutions, an Airband master agent. “Our clients like that Airband delivers hosted VoIP services via its fixed-wireless network because they’re not subject to cable cuts, flooding and other related outages.”

RealCom Solutions works with businesses ranging from midsize to Fortune 1000 enterprises to evaluate their total telecom costs and to improve their services in the most cost-effective way. Using a vendor-neutral approach, RealCom Solutions provides clients with alternative solutions and saves them time, productivity and expenses.

“RealCom Solutions evaluated our current costs and helped us find a fully managed solution that met our needs. We significantly reduced our total cost of ownership by switching from an expensive, on-premise voice platform to Airband’s hosted voice and data services,” said Dwayne Hermes, founding partner of Hermes Sargent Bates, LLP, a Dallas, Texas-based law firm. “By using Airband’s hosted VoIP, we can better serve our clients because we have voice services with greater flexibility, redundancy and functionality.”

In addition to cost-savings, agents report that customers like the idea of fixed-wireless services. Aligned Communications, a Texas-based telecommunications master agent, added Airband’s voice and data services to its portfolio because of its scalable bandwidth delivered via its wholly owned fixed-wireless network.

“Our customers want all of the bells and whistles of a new voice system, but without the high capital cost. With Airband’s Hosted VoIP solution, they get exactly what they are looking for, all from one provider,” said Dave Wallace, president and CEO of Aligned Communications. “We recently began selling Airband’s voice products and we already see that it’s a relatively quick sales cycle and customers like the idea of getting their voice and data over one integrated wireless connection.”

Airband serves 17 markets across the U.S. including Atlanta; Austin; Baltimore; Dallas; Des Moines; Fort Lauderdale; Fort Worth; Houston; Las Vegas; Los Angeles; Miami; Orange County, Calif.; Philadelphia; Phoenix; San Antonio; San Diego and Washington, D.C.

About Airband

Airband Communications, Inc. is the largest fixed-wireless voice and data provider for businesses in the U.S. The company offers a comprehensive portfolio of high-speed Internet access, point-to-point data services, Voice over IP, security and other managed solutions – delivered over one of the industry’s most scalable last-mile networks. Airband bypasses the local phone and cable companies to provide faster provisioning intervals, immediate scalability and complete redundancy for its customers. Thousands of businesses nationwide already count on Airband for their broadband service. For more information, please visit www.airband.com.