Cost saving is still the predominant influencing factor for businesses looking for a VoIP telephone system.  Maybe the question shouldn’t just be, how much will the saving be, but how will VoIP positively affect businesses as a whole?

Andy Abramson is a respected veteran VoIP consultant and is the internet’s most widely read VoIP blogger.  VoIP News recently interviewed him regarding Enterprise VoIP and where it is headed in 2007.

Here are some of the main points:

Here at genzee we believe that hosted IP Telephony solutions have major benefits for small to medium businesses.  Our Asterisk based hosted PBX service, VPBX, allows our clients to have a full featured business telephone system without the associated cost of a hardware PBX.  Cost saving is the most obvious benefit but businesses are now cottoning on to the productivity enhancements that a hosted VoIP service could provide.

A report released by InStat, shows that hosted voice over IP telephony usage has increased among small businesses.  The study, "Hosted VOIP: Steady Growth, But Will the Boom Come?", points out a trend where the take up of Hosted VoIP solutions is quickest in the SMB market with revenues expected to exceed $2 billion by 2010.

Read the article on eWeek.