Provider in the Spotlight: Alliance Phones
Alliance Phones is a superb hosted VoIP provider. Alliance Phones offers hosted VoIP solutions for small and medium businesses around the country. Alliance Phones focuses purely on business needs, and made the deliberate decision to not sell phone service to residential users in order to fully cater to business innovation.
With its headquarters located in South San Francisco just 5 minutes away from the San Francisco International Airport, Alliance Phones takes a bustling approach to phone service. Its cloud platforms are designed to provide high quality reliability no matter where a company’s employees access the business system.
Free Trials For 100% Phone Confidence
One thing that makes Alliance Phones stand out from the competition is its free demo offer for potential clients. Users can test out Alliance Phones with a free temporary number and free unlimited calling for two days. This way businesses have full confidence in Alliance Phones before they buy. Alliance Phones offers US support if users want to call with any questions along the way. Alliance Phones also has an online help chat if users want to IM their questions to an agent on duty.
Easy and Effortless Phone Plans for Business Big and Small
Easy, effortless, and simple describe how seamless it is to switch to Alliance Phones phone service, and "Easy" "Effortless" and "Simple" are also the names of Alliance Phones' main phone plans. Their Easy Plus plan is for smaller businesses that only need 1-3 phones lines. Users get unlimited minutes, rich PBX features, a monthly contract, and no initial setup fees. This runs for $29.97/month per extension. The Simplicity Plus plan also includes unlimited minutes, PBX features, and no setup fees, but it’s intended for 4-20 phone lines and comes at a discount rate of $24.97/month per extension. The Effortless Plus plan is Alliance Phones’ best value at $20.97/month per line. This plan also comes with all of the goodies as the Easy Plus and Simplicity Plus plans, but is meant for larger companies with 21-100+ phone lines. All of Alliance Phones’ plans come with over 20 included free features like toll-free numbers, auto attendant, call recording, and music on hold.
Alliance Phones’ Phones
Phone Alliance offers IP phones with a scalable amount of phone lines. The cheapest IP Phone they offer is their 2-line Cisco SPA 2012 Phone Adapter with Router for $79. Phone Alliance offers 3, 4, and 5 lines phones, as well as their conference call phone system which has a 12-foot microphone pickup range with optional expansion mics. Alliance Phones are compatible with both PC and Mac office systems. They are currently working on expanding into the iPhone and Android market, with a roll out soon to come.