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SwitchboardFREE Is Now Cyber Essentials Plus Certified!
SwitchboardFREE has been awarded the Cyber Essentials Plus certification. This means your data’s protected from cybercrime.
Residential VoIP: This Is the Only Guide You’ll Ever Need!
In case you haven’t heard, the future of home landlines is residential VoIP. Here is everything you need to know about making the switch!
Why Calls Matter 12 Times More Than Online Clicks
Everyone does everything online, don’t they? We may think that, but research shows that the humble telephone is still firmly with us!
SwitchboardFREE Celebrates Saving Small-Medium Businesses £901 million After Logging 200 Million Call Minutes
Missed calls and missed business opportunities? Not on SwitchboardFREE’s watch! This week, Lowestoft-based company SwitchboardFREE celebrated the milestone of handling over 200 million call minutes on behalf of their customers. But it’s not just the minutes that they are excited about. It’s that this translates to capturing what would have been over 14 million missed… read more
The End Of Analogue Phones, The Death Of Your Existing Handset And The Migration To VoIP
The End Of Analogue Phones, The Death Of Your Existing Handset And The Migration To VoIP BT are continuing their plan to shut down their traditional telephone network (ISDN) in the UK with the intention to move us all in the UK over to Internet-based telephony (VoIP). This process has already started and by the… read more
Live telephone answering service by SwitchboardFREE
Save one of your SwitchboardFREE’s redirect spots for Pocket Receptionist – our new telephone answering service. Pocket Receptionist employ a team of skilled and experienced in-house receptionists who take calls on your business’ behalf when you can’t. You can put behind the worries of hiring a traditional receptionist and imposing additional pressure on your company’s… read more
How our Twitter poll reflected the actual general election results?
The snap 2017 general election is over, but the emotions evoked by the results are far from settling. The general opinion is that Prime Minister Theresa May did not have her gamble to call an early election justified, as the Conservatives failed to secure an overall majority in Parliament. The governing party won 318 seats… read more
Sync the City 2015: 54 Hour startup weekend
We know building a business from scratch is no mean feat. The SwitchboardFREE team were in Norwich this past weekend for Sync the City 2015, a fantastic event that brought together over 100 tech fans, including coders, developers, business people and students, from all around East Anglia. The challenge: To build and launch a brand new tech startup… in just… read more
10 Years of SwitchboardFREE
Rewind 10 years to 2005 and the world was quite different. YouTube was just beginning, it was the year ‘The Facebook’ became just ‘Facebook’, when Microsoft first released the Xbox 360, and the same year Axel F’s Crazy Frog took the world by storm. Back in 2005, Google had only just acquired Android, most of… read more
Crowd-sourced fundraising and call tracking: Extremis Technology
Extremis Technology, the engineering company involved in the development and manufacture of revolutionary new shelters designed specifically for disaster relief, has just launched its round-three investment campaign – using crowd-sourced funding via Crowdcube (www.crowdcube.com/investment/extremis-technology-18511). Seeking to raise £260,000 of funding to propel their innovative humanitarian shelters into production, Extremis Technology’s Hush shelters were the brain… read more