In a recent article, Will my existing phone system work on the NBN, I compared switching to the NBN to the change from analogue TV to digital TV. At the time, there was an option to buy a set top box, which served as a cost-effective stop gap, but it wasn’t until we upgraded the TV that we got the…
When I talk to customers or friends who run small to medium businesses and I mention the letters N, B and N, I get a very mixed reaction. On the one hand people are excited. They want to talk about the improvements and the possibilities the NBN will bring to their businesses. But there’s also a fair degree of anxiety…
As the NBN rolls out across Australia, you might be considering the upgrade of your old analogue telephone system. But there’s a lot of choice out there. So how do you know which type of phone system is right for your business? Will my existing phone system work? And do I need to upgrade at all if I have digital…
You may have heard rumours that you’ll have to change your whole telephone system once the NBN arrives in your area. Well let me reassure you that this is a myth. When your suburb switches to the NBN, you won’t necessarily have to upgrade your phones. But having said that, there are some good reasons why you might choose to…
My youngest kid finished Year 12 recently. And watching her study, I realised she'd inherited some of my scholastic habits. Unfortunately they weren't the good ones! Like her old man, my daughter leaves all her projects and exam study till the last minute. Luckily both of us managed to scrape through somehow. Maybe a crisis focuses the mind. But it's…
Imagine if I told you that you could now get a phone system that would save you 40% to 60% off your monthly phone bill. Not only that, this system would also have all the hi-tech features you'd find in the phone setup of a large corporation. And it was so reliable that you'd never have to worry about line…
As the NBN rollout continues across Australia, we're getting closer to the day when all phones run over the internet. The old copper wire phone system will eventually be shut down. Internet phone systems offer your business plenty of advantages like lower costs and the flexibility to scale up or add features. But anyone who's ever used the internet knows…
The switch from the old copper wire network to the NBN is possibly the most significant technological infrastructure development in the past 50 years. It’s a big change. And as the American author and leadership coach John Maxwell wrote, “Change is inevitable, progress is optional”. I’d be the first to admit that I find change unsettling. The fear of the…
We Australians like to think of ourselves as an innovative lot. And there are plenty of technological achievements we can be proud of. For example, did you know the CSIRO invented Wi-Fi? Or that an Australian scientist, David Warren, designed the black box flight recorder? Then there was penicillin antibiotics pioneered by Dr Howard Florey. And of course the polymer…
