M5 Managed VoIP



Sound Quality
4.6875
Reliability
4.875
Customer Service
5
Features
4.875
Price
4.25
Overall
4.7375

16 Reviews |

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Availability: United States
Founded in: 2000

"With M5 Networks, you get the latest technology without investing more dollars."

by Samuel A. Litt, Director of Information Technology, John Carris Investments

M5 Networks is a cloud communications company that provides phones and phone service applications with an emphasis on customer service and satisfaction. 

M5 has 11 years of experience in cloud-based business phone solutions. With over 2000 customers across North America, M5 is one of the US's largest specialized VoIP providers.

M5 Business Phone Service

The M5 cloud-based business phone solution is both hosted and managed. This means that customers do not need to house the phone system in a closet on-site; instead, the system is located in secure data centers, and M5 takes responsibility for owning, configuring and managing the system.

M5 Customers connect to the system through a provisioned, private Internet connection which ensures the best call quality and reliability. 

M5 Softswitch

M5 has developed its own softswitch, which gives M5 flexibility to add or expand features as customers require. The softswitch also gives M5 the ability to take complete responsibility for its performance and dependability. 

M5's business phone solutions provide all of the features you would expect from an enterprise class phone system, with a twist:  Experts will help you configure the solution to take advantage of the capabilities in a way that best benefits your business. 

There are less expensive solutions available, but M5 wants you to never have to hope that your phone network will work. M5 wants you to never have to worry about configuring a new extension or dealing with terrible customer service.

M5 Value Added Applications

M5 also offers many revolutionary, value-added applications to help get more out of your phone system:

  • M5 Connect
  • Callfinity Contact Center
  • Unified Communications and Mobility
  • M5 Intelligence

M5 Connect

Applications like CRM, ERP and applicant tracking systems have become the management instrument and storage space for business information. M5 Connect unifies your phone system with these CRM applications and unleashes their productivity-enhancing and analytic potential.

M5 Connect improves efficiency with "click-to-dial" functionality, while at the same time, improving service with inbound-call screen pop-ups.  Call notes are automatically entered to allow management easy access to critical business metrics.

M5 prepackages Connect offerings with many CRM and Applicant Tracking systems, such as Salesforce.com, NetSuite and Bullhorn. M5 also provides an API to integrate M5 Connect with other applications or home-grown systems.

M5 Callfinity Contact Center

The M5 Callfinity Contact Center is bundled with a business phone solution to improve your company's image and rate of successful customer interactions.  Features include:

  • a web-based, self-service administration center for call center managers;
  • easy-to-use live dashboards and reports;
  • built-in call recording with evaluations to track agent performance over time;
  • unlimited queues; and
  • skills-based routing called Prioritized Skill Routing™

The M5 Callfinity Contact Center is fully integrated rest of your business phone system.  The ability to add a call center license to any M5 business phone makes it easy to extend call center functionality to your entire enterprise.

M5 Unified Communications and Mobility

M5 can help you incorporate your managed VoIP service into a unified communications suite. Additional services include:

  • M5 Fax – Fax to email service
  • M5 Scribe - Voicemail to email transcription
  • Find Me/Follow Me – Personal Call Routing
  • M5 Business SMS – Text integration with Salesforce.com or email

M5 Intelligence

M5 Intelligence supports better business decision making by making business intelligence easier.

Because many important interactions occur over the phone, information about the nature, number, duration and source of phone calls is critical to complete and useful business analytics.

M5 Support

M5 is officially committed to providing an outstanding customer experience, from installation to call quality to customer support.

M5 Help makes it easy to interact with a customer support expert. If you have an issue or a question, press of the "?" key on your desktop telephone will directly connect you to a support engineer – immediately. So, if you want to know how that specific feature works, you can just ask.

M5 Managed VoIP

Get a custom quote for managed VoIP from m5 and stop working on your phone system.

Key Features:

  • Provisioned Internet for best quality
  • CRM interface integration
  • Stop working on your phone system!

Basic Info

  • Monthly Fees: $40.00
  • Cancellation Fees: $0.00
  • Setup Fees: $0.00
  • Long Distance: $0.00/min
  • Shipping: $0.00
  • Other Fees: N/A

Special Notes

Fees may vary based on the custom needs/Internet connection of the customer's phone network

Available Features

  • Call Blocking
  • Conference Calling
  • Fax Capabilities
  • Faxes to Email
  • Call Forwarding
  • Call Hold
  • Call Transfer
  • Music on Hold
  • Caller ID with Name
  • Call Waiting Disable *70
  • Call Waiting ID
  • Distinctive Ring
  • Do Not Disturb
  • Muti Line User
  • Multiple Users
  • Area Code Selection
  • Extra Number (Virtual Numbers)
  • Toll Free Numbers
  • BYOD (Bring Your Own Device, SIP)
  • Call Messaging
  • Enhanced Voice Mail
  • Voice Mails Emailed to You

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gneilson
Member since: Apr 2012
xxx.xxx.69.46

M5: Simply Outstanding

Posted on: Apr 03, 2012
Pros
Features, Support, Quick Turn up
Cons

M5's quality and support are simply outstanding.  Their features and quick turn up times is what has made us keep coming back to them. I have already recommended them to others looking for a quality service.

Sound Quality
5
Reliability
5
Features
5
Customer Service
5
Price
4
Overall
4.8

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louismmoran
Member since: Apr 2012
xxx.xxx.1.225

M5 is a partner, not a vendor

Posted on: Apr 02, 2012
Pros
Great customer service, a true partner and features you need
Cons
Oddly timed entire staff staff meetings

We've been with M5 since 2007 and I consider this among he best choices I've made in my career.  M5 is a partner not a vendor. The difference is huge.  

Sound Quality
5
Reliability
5
Features
5
Customer Service
5
Price
4
Overall
4.8

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AshlyG
Member since: Apr 2012
xxx.xxx.73.240

M5: Pricier, they found other ways for us to save

Posted on: Apr 02, 2012
Pros
Customer Service, Reliability of Service
Cons
Price

My small business office uses M5 for 10 VoIP phones using their T1 line. The service is great! Their customer service is their best feature. We recently tried to cut costs by connecting our VoIP phones to a Time Warner public internet line but we constantly dropped calls because the connection had constant interruptions. Although M5 is pricier, you get what you pay for. We switched back to M5. I appreciate their honesty when evaluating what services I need. They found other ways for us to save money on our monthly service (ie use Time Warner for internet but keep the phones on a T1). Thanks!

Sound Quality
5
Reliability
5
Features
5
Customer Service
5
Price
4
Overall
4.8

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screpea
Member since: Apr 2012
xxx.xxx.193.98

M5: High reliability

Posted on: Apr 02, 2012
Pros
High reliability, great features, and intergration with LoB application for our company, Low administration overhead, very responsive technical support.
Cons
As with any managed cloud service, ongoing expenses need to be managed.

We moved to M5 over 5 years ago, from a propritary PBX environement. That proved to have a high CapEx budgeting for ever expanding requirement, and high administration overhead. The M5 managed VoIP eliminates most of all the CapEx and voice communications continuing operations is very smooth. It takes up less than 5% of our monthly time allocated. All issues and requests followed up by their staff until resolution. And with new features such as soft phone apps for mobile communications, for laptops/netbooks/etc. for off site communications, and user controlled follow me commands.

Sound Quality
4
Reliability
5
Features
5
Customer Service
5
Price
3
Overall
4.4

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mhernandez
Member since: Apr 2012
xxx.xxx.69.121

M5: Awesome customer service

Posted on: Apr 02, 2012
Pros
Cons

Great Reporting Methods. Great sound quality, easy management. M5 is constantly improving the quality and service management, very stable service. Awasome customer service, very quick response provided.

Sound Quality
5
Reliability
5
Features
5
Customer Service
5
Price
4
Overall
4.8

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miannotta
Member since: Apr 2012
xxx.xxx.185.114

If it ain't broke don't fix it

Posted on: Apr 02, 2012
Pros
Reliable; great customer service
Cons
not many

I have worked with M5 for over 4 years.  When I arrived at my compnay as the director of IT, there was a lot of work to clean up, upgrade and fix systems and process within the comanpy.  To add to that complexity, our company has grown at a rapid rate on top of that.  Throughout the process, M5 has made this proess easy as there was very little work on our end to keep things up and running.

 

Yes, we've had problems.  A router died and the phones were out.  It was replaced in a matter of hours.  There also was a period where there service was slipping.  I had a meeting with my account manager to discuss.  They advised me that they promoted some of their service department and that many of the customer service staff was new.  They asked that I give them a little time and they will resolve those issues which I thought was fair.  They kept their word and within a few weeks the service levels were back to normal.

 

I get calls all day from someone who will save me money on my phone bill.  I operate with the rule, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.  No headaches, no hassle and honesty.  If the rest of my vendors woudl be this way, my job would be easier.

Sound Quality
5
Reliability
5
Features
5
Customer Service
5
Price
5
Overall
5

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amorris
Member since: Jan 2012
xxx.xxx.167.90

M5: Always Satisfied

Posted on: Jan 17, 2012
Pros
literally everything.
Cons
a bit pricey but you get what you pay for

My company recommends M5 to everyone and anyone.  Never a problem, always satisfied, and always good with tech support.  I could not recommend M5 enough. 

Sound Quality
5
Reliability
5
Features
5
Customer Service
5
Price
5
Overall
5

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PVMaggie
Member since: Jan 2012
xxx.xxx.33.101

M5: Phenomenal Customer Service

Posted on: Jan 17, 2012
Pros
The customer service at M5 is phenomenal. They are available any time that I need them. They also are very quick to resolve my issues, most times within 1 business day.
Cons
Depending on the internet connection in our office space, the reliability and sound quality can be in and out.

Overall, I am very pleased with our VoIP service through M5. At times, the phones will cut out and sometimes lose connection, but that is because of our weak internet connection in our office. The customer service through M5 is outstanding and I have always had my issues resolved in a better than expected time frame. I would certainly recommend M5 and the VoIP service to a friend or colleague without any hesitation. 

Sound Quality
4
Reliability
5
Features
5
Customer Service
5
Price
3
Overall
4.4

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acruz1400
Member since: Jan 2012
xxx.xxx.138.50

M5 Managed VoIP: Thanks

Posted on: Jan 10, 2012
Pros
None
Cons
None

One of the major challenges that I have at Middleby Corporation is dated phone system. I'm glad that I picked M5 for the solution. Now, I have more time and energy to focus on other projects and I'm with babysitting dated phone system. Especial thanks to my project leader, he helped me all the way no matter what issues we come accross. I also want to extend my thanks to support team and my account manager who also have given lots of support getting every division up and running. It's a job well done!. I definitely recommend M5. Thanks,Adreydie Cruz (AC)

Sound Quality
5
Reliability
4
Features
5
Customer Service
5
Price
5
Overall
4.8

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sdicapua
Member since: Jan 2012
xxx.xxx.95.84

M5 Managed VoIP: Painless Migration

Posted on: Jan 09, 2012
Pros
Cons

For years, we have enjoyed working with M5. Their strength lies not only in the quality of their products but also in their incredible customer service. Our recent migration with them was painless and successful. We look forward to continuing to work with them.

Sound Quality
5
Reliability
5
Features
5
Customer Service
5
Price
5
Overall
5

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Last Updated: 05/23/2012 07:05 PM