Over 10,000 SMBs Choose Phonebooth in First 120 Days

We don’t normally post press releases on the Phonebooth Blog, but this is pretty big news.  Phonebooth is growing quickly and we’re excited to continue making rapid improvements and meet our community’s needs. Check out the full release below!

Bandwidth.com, a nationwide supplier of voice and data communication services to small and medium sized businesses, today announced the latest release of Phonebooth Free, the first free business-grade phone system. The new release adds several new features, significant usability and performance enhancements and the ability to purchase additional minutes, beyond the 200 free minutes included with every Phonebooth Free system, for half the previously announced price.

Since the launch of Phonebooth Free and Phonebooth OnDemand in March 2010, more than 10,000 small businesses, free agents, consultants and professional firms have signed up for Phonebooth Free and close to 4,000 users are now on the more robust Phonebooth OnDemand paid version as well.

The latest release of Phonebooth Free includes:

•        A free local phone number
•        Business voicemail
•        200 free inbound minutes each month
•        PBX call-routing features
•        Free voicemail-to-email transcription (with message sound-file attached)
•        Improvements to call groups, offering better interoperability with mobile users
•        Direct-to-voicemail transferring
•        Smart defaults during initial set-up
•        The ability to purchase additional minutes within the product interface for 3 cents per minute (50 percent lower than the of the original market level 6 cent-per-minute rate)
•        Dozens of other usability enhancements directly based on user feedback
•        System performance upgrades

“Smartphones are ubiquitous across the SMB landscape, and these businesses are increasingly looking for ways to use new IP-based cloud communications tools to improve their productivity and grow their business,” said Todd Barr, VP Marketing of Bandwidth.com, the creators of Phonebooth. “If you are a start-up or small virtual company, your mobile phones might be your only phone today. Phonebooth Free ties it all together with a business phone number and smart call routing to your existing mobile phones or Google Voice number. Many of our users now think of Phonebooth as a phone system for the modern, mobile SMB.”

Phonebooth’s latest update addresses two of the top user requests (as observed in our growing UserVoice forum) by greatly improving group functionality and adding smart defaults to make first-time set-up extremely quick and simple. Additionally, the Phonebooth team has made dozens of usability, performance, and voice quality enhancements to improve the overall value and user experience for Phonebooth customers.

“We’re very pleased with the latest release of Phonebooth,” said Jim Mulcahy, VP of Product Management at Bandwidth.com. “Because we built our own nationwide voice network and our own cloud-based unified communications platform, we are able to manage the entire customer experience from software usability to voice quality to customer support. This release is a great example of the type of innovation and value we can bring to our customers on an ongoing basis.”

Get started with Phonebooth Free now

Not only is Phonebooth Free the first truly free cloud-based phone system for SMBs, it also includes 200 free minutes per month of inbound phone service to get you started (purchase additionally minutes right on the Phonebooth interface for an industry-low 3 cents per minute). Phonebooth Free is available right now at http://phonebooth.com/free, where you can literally reserve your local number online and be up and running in minutes.

For SMBs that require inbound and outbound service and/or office phones with full PBX call-routing features, Phonebooth OnDemand is among the best values in the phone service market at $20 per user for unlimited inbound and outbound domestic calling. 
Configure your Phonebooth OnDemand package now at: http://phonebooth.com.

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About Phonebooth

Phonebooth is a cloud-based phone system for SMB’s. Phonebooth Free is the industry’s first free phone system to offer business-grade features including smart call routing, business voicemail and an auto-attendant. Phonebooth OnDemand is a low-cost, full-featured business phone system for businesses that need desk phones and unlimited inbound and outbound domestic calling. Follow Phonebooth at twitter.com/phonebooth.

About Bandwidth.com

Phonebooth is brought to you by Bandwidth.com, the leader in the business VoIP market. As a complete business communications provider, Bandwidth.com offers IP voice (VoIP), hosted VoIP, data and managed network services, powered by our nationwide, 100% IP voice network. For more information call (800) 808-5150, and follow us at twitter.com/bandwidth.