Ring 9 launched Hosted PBX & Call Conference Bundle

The Ring – Ring 9 that is – has opened up to encompass yet more within it. From ringing one IP phone at a time, Ring 9 has now entered the web conference market to ring several IP phones at a time.

The company which boasts of a scalable, cost-effective, zero-maintenance communications solution has also announced a Web Meeting/Hosted PBX Bundle, which will effectively allow Ring 9 users access to Web Meeting, unlimited local and long distance calls, and a fully featured IP phone system for a flat monthly fee of $49.95. In case you decide not to go for the IP phone system, then you can get Web Meeting without Hosted PBX – as a stand-alone product – for $29.95.

Ring 9 Web Meeting lets businesses host and attend collaborative and interactive meetings, sales presentations, demonstrations, webinars, remote support, training and marketing events using a standard Internet browser. Attendees can share screens, documents, spreadsheets and even applications, and pass control to other attendees to enable real-time information sharing and collaboration. And as if all these business features weren’t enough, there’s also whiteboards and drawing tools, desktop recording and playback, email and instant messaging, polling, document sharing, and video. In short, it connects multiple computers users via video and leaves the rest to their imagination.

Bob McCarthy, CEO of Ring 9, said that Web Meeting was a natural next step in their mission to increase productivity, reduce cost structures, and enhance business relationships for their customers.

“Like our VoIP services, the Web Meeting product is provided over a hosted platform.” He said. “Ring 9 customers do not need to make large, on-site capital investments to take advantage of IP technology. In addition, Web Meeting bundled with our hosted PBX delivers phenomenal value to our customers”.

Considering that a typical business cabin class flight – even Economy cabin class – from one corner of America to another would cost much, much, much more than $50 (I checked American Airlines, and it’s all above $200 WITHOUT taxes), I think Ring 9’s offering a pretty neat deal. Instead of flying executives all around the country to make them see each other and make presentations and have brainstorming sessions, companies can simply pay $50 a month and make everybody happy – the company will be happy because it will be saving money on travel AND telephony expenses (Hosted PBX, remember?), the employee will be happy because he wouldn’t have to leave his family, and of course, Ring 9 would be happy. But when you come down to think of it, The Frequent Flyer Miles Program might bear a grudge or two against it.

This article is written by samarth chandola, full time VOIP news editor for VOIP Guide.