Getting out and meeting new Businesses!

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Today Ian and I have found ourselves manning a stand at Network Central at Sandygate in Exeter.  We had a range of different products to show customers including Telephone Systems, Handsets and a new solution we have just put together that allows businesses who call Mobile Phones a lot to make calls from the Office - Read the Rest... ...

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How to speed up your Business Broadband Connection

Following on from the recent news that Cornwall has been given £132 million by the European Union to build one of the fastest broadband fibre networks in Europe and with our other neighbour Bristol benefiting from strong reliable Broadband,  Devon and Somerset have been set to be left behind… In Devon we still have 75,000 businesses - Read the Rest... ...

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How to get a free Telephone System!

People are always telling me that Telephone Systems are expensive and so tend to put the decision to replace it off until the business is affected and customers are complaining.  I have installed three Telephone Systems in Devon in the last month that have not cost the customer a penny and one which has actually saved - Read the Rest... ...

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Five reasons why IP CCTV should be installed in your offices

We have recently installed a new CCTV system in our Exeter offices and besides the obvious use I have been suprised by some of the other benefits.  Two weeks ago we had an issue with a shoplifter in our new shop.  Having no ability to prove that anything had actually been taken we were left with - Read the Rest... ...

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Ideas to save money on your Telephone Bills.

While many business owners spend a lot of time examining the cost of Capital equipment in my opinion more stock should be put in regularly examining the amount spent on your operating costs, things like your Gas and Electricity.  Often by far the largest operating cost for utilities is your Telephone Bill.  This prompted me - Read the Rest... ...

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Top Ten Tips for Buying a new Telephone System

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I am often asked, “Why should we buy our new Telephone System from you?”  This prompted me to put together a list of ten questions that you should consider asking a potential Telephone System provider.  I hope this will help you! Does your supplier have direct relationships with the manufacturer?  (A lot of Telephony providers - Read the Rest... ...

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Ian the Exeter Communications GEEK

A strange title I know. Just a quick blog to give others an insight into the research and development of Communications and IT that I have been doing and mastering since our move into the new office. I start with a moan! My HTC Desire did not do well when it was launched out of - Read the Rest... ...

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Why consider using Voice Over IP?

Voice over IP has been given a bad press over recent years with many users complaining about dropped calls of bad quality lines.  The truth is that if you want good quality connections that will save your company a small fortune in both line rental and call costs thenVoice over IP is a great option.  - Read the Rest... ...

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Communications Exeter

Cobalt Communications provides small to medium business telephone systems, cheap Telephone calls, Business Mobile Phone Contracts from Orange Vodafone and O2, High Speed Business Broadband as well as Maintenance and Support. Why should I use Cobalt Communications? The Telephone system market is undergoing a fundamental change with the evolution of IP Telephony. Most traditional Telecoms - Read the Rest... ...

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7 Reasons Windows 7

“Taken From A Microsoft Mailer 7 reasons Why we are not sad about having to sell Windows 7” From Microsoft Mailer When we designed the latest version of Windows, we wanted to make sure it was going to deliver what businesses like yours really wanted. So we asked them – lots of them – and - Read the Rest... ...

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