Our Employee Incentive has been extended! If your employer uses PriorityOne's phone service this is your chance to win a $100 VISA Gift Card!

>> Download pdf with details on how to win << or visit this page

Send a referral to PriorityOne, a small to medium sized business owner, who has the need for our services, which includes hosted phone systems and high-speed internet. When your referral signs on for service from PriorityOne – you will receive a $100 VISA gift card, perfect for holiday shopping!*

Who is a good referral for PriorityOne?

• A business owner looking to save money on their costly or outdated phone system.
• A business owner who wants more control over features their phone system can provide.
• A business owner who can get in touch with support right away and not wait on hold
• A business owner who wants a reliable phone system supported by the internet.
• A business owner who has multiple business locations and needs a more seamless phone system to connect these locations.
• A business owner who has mobile workers and needs them to stay connected like those in the office.

Not sure how to describe what we do? Here are some ideas…

• PriorityOne provides hosted phone systems, also known as VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol). Voice data is sent through the internet and is more cost effective and easy to manage than a traditional phone system. You are using our phone system right now!
• In addition to internet phone systems, we provide high-speed, affordable internet service for businesses.
• We help businesses implement reliable phone systems that are easy to manage, flexible and affordable.

Where do you send your referral once you have one?

• Send the name, company and phone number of your referral to: Kaitlin, Marketing  Coordinator, at  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and someone from PriorityOne will follow up with that person.
• Give the referral our phone number and have them call 518-533-4480

Questions? Email  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Visit www.priorityonenet.com for more information about PriorityOne

*Limit one gift card per person. Referral must sign up for PriorityOne’s VoIP or Internet Service and sale must be considered closed for participant to receive gift card. Business that is referred must have between 3-50 employees.

We would like to welcome Integral|One Network Solutions as a new partnering agent for PriorityOne Networks. We look forward to working together and combining our technology solutions.

About Integral One: Headquartered in Albany, NY, Integral|ONE is the premier Information Technology firm serving upstate New York. From small and medium businesses with a single location to enterprise and government organizations with thousands of users at many locations, clients have turned to us for leadership in designing and implementing solutions to their business objectives for over 20 years.

Integral One Network Solutions LLC
251 New Karner Rd Suite 929
Albany, NY 12205
518-464-4014

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If your employeer uses PriorityOne's phone service this is your chance to win a $100 VISA Gift Card!

>> Download pdf with details on how to win <<   or visit this page

Send a referral to PriorityOne, a small to medium sized business owner, who has the need for our services, which includes hosted phone systems and high-speed internet. When your referral signs on for service from PriorityOne – you will receive a $100 VISA gift card, perfect for holiday shopping!*

Who is a good referral for PriorityOne?

• A business owner looking to save money on their costly or outdated phone system. 
•  A business owner who wants more control over features their phone system can provide.  
•  A business owner who can get in touch with support right away and not wait on hold 
• A business owner who wants a reliable phone system supported by the internet. 
•  A business owner who has multiple business locations and needs a more seamless phone system to connect these locations. 
•  A business owner who has mobile workers and needs them to stay connected like those in the office.

Not sure how to describe what we do? Here are some ideas…

•  PriorityOne provides hosted phone systems, also known as VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol). Voice data is sent through the internet and is more cost effective and easy to manage than a traditional phone system. You are using our phone system right now!
•  In addition to internet phone systems, we provide high-speed, affordable internet service for businesses. 
•  We help businesses implement reliable phone systems that are easy to manage, flexible and affordable.

Where do you send your referral once you have one?

• Send the name, company and phone number of your referral to: Kaitlin, Marketing  Coordinator, at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and someone from PriorityOne will follow up with that person. 
•  Give the referral our phone number and have them call 518-533-4480

Questions? Email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Visit www.priorityonenet.com for more information about PriorityOne

*Limit one gift card per person. Referral must sign up for PriorityOne’s VoIP or Internet Service and sale must be considered closed for participant to receive gift card. Business that is referred must have between 3-50 employees.

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Small businesses do not have the same options as large concerns in adopting new technologies and tools. They are restricted by low funds and resources. VoIP telephone systems are a sensible choice for small businesses as they reduce costs and offer many other features that are otherwise unaffordable for the business owner.

Small businesses pay almost four times more per employee, for traditional phone services, than large businesses. VoIP service providers recognize the emerging market in small scale businesses and offer packages specially tailored to that business size.

How can VoIP phone systems benefit small businesses?
There are many advantages of having a VoIP telephone system to facilitate communication inside as well as outside the workplace. VoIP phone systems are cost-effective, reliable, easily manageable and scalable. VoIP telephone systems benefit small businesses in many ways:

Reliability: VoIP phone systems have proven to be more dependable than analog telephones.
Reasonable cost: VoIP providers offer short-term contracts to business owners. The providers may charge a sign up cost, but that is quite reasonable.
Scalability: Businesses can start with a handful of IP phones and scale up gradually. The growth of the VoIP telephone system can be proportional to the growth in business.
Easy management: VoIP phone systems can collect detailed data on the telephonic activity of the business such as incoming numbers, time of call, receiving extensions and more. All this information can be collated in a spreadsheet and provided to top management to take business decisions.
Maintainable by in-house staff: The existing IT staff can easily maintain the VoIP phone system. VoIP telephone systems are easily integrated with software and do not need expert VoIP technicians for their maintenance.
Business-friendly features: VoIP phone systems offer useful features that can be adopted by small businesses to emulate the business processes of larger organizations. Features such as auto attendants, call queues, extensions, call transfers, and conferences make the business more credible in the eyes of the calling customer. VoIP telephone systems allow users to receive voice mail and fax over email. These features increase efficiency of the staff.

PriorityOne can help save your small business up to 50% per month, compared to a traditional phone system. Call today 866-578-5355.

Conducting day-to-day functions and activities within a business is essential to keep things running smoothly. Customers, suppliers, and fellow team members rely on the process of activities to be completed without interruption or stoppage to ensure standards and procedures are met. But what happens when a natural disaster occurs? Can your business continue to function? Are you still able to reach customers and clients who depend on the timely process of normal business activities?

That is where disaster recovery comes in. Having a VoIP phone system over a traditional solution can change the way you react when a natural disaster occurs. With VoIP there is no need to panic when you find yourself out of the office and still need to reach clients, whether that is because of a hurricane in August or snowstorm in January. When power or internet is out at your business that doesn't mean you have to stop working or receiving calls. With a VoIP solution, calls can be set up to ring to alternate phone numbers or cell phones when internet or power is temporarily down. Create a company plan as well as a minor plan to be prepared in case of an emergency, large or small.

Call us to discuss how VoIP can help your business in an emergency situation and also save up to 50% on your current solution. 866-578-5355.

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VoIP or internet phone is a not a new technology. However, there are different types of VoIP providers that offer their services to the internet phone subscribers. Today we will be having a look at all the different available options to see which one is the best for you. Let us go through all the different VoIP phone service types out there.

Free VoIP services

Free VoIP services fall into two different categories. The first ones are the free VoIP services that are offered by the chatting services of big messengers. This type of phone service needs you to have their software installed on both computers from which you want to communicate with each other. This service has been around for many years now and is commonly used by many people. However, you need to have a computer and the software to use it. The other category of VoIP service, which is offered free of cost is just named as a free VoIP service, but instead it is not difficult to determine that under the surface both of these free VoIP services are the same. These services try to attract the phone subscribers by their free offers but they have many different limitations, which make them less ideal to be used as regular phone services. They may be beneficial for a limited type of use but again they also don't deliver in terms of the quality that they promised to their subscribers. Another serious drawback is that the free VoIP services usually work in some countries and you won't be able to use them to make phone calls worldwide.

Dedicated VoIP services

There are different dedicated VoIP services out there. In order to understand what each of these VoIP providers will offer, we will have a look at each, one by one.

By Rajani Baburajan
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While recent research from In-Stat finds that small business spending on wireline voice services will approach $16 billion by 2015, that number may be threatened by the increased use of VoIP services and VoIP equipment purchases.

According to In-Stat, the figure represents nearly 50 percent of the entire wireline voice services spending. Small businesses that have five to 99 employees account for around half the GDP and more than half the employment in the U.S.

Among these businesses, the hospitality and food vertical will spend the most on wireline voice services, reaching $2 billion by 2012, according to In-Stat's research titled, "US Business Spending by Size of Business and Vertical, 2010-2015: Wireline Voice Services.

However, wireline voice services could be hit by alternate technologies like VoIP, which reduces the costs of international long distance communications.

By Om Malik
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The very idea of what is a phone call is changing, and changing fast. What used to be a fixed phone turned into anywhere calling. Now Facebook, Google and Skype have made calls about video chat, friends and social circles, not phone numbers. It's perhaps time to rethink the very notion of a phone call and what defines the classic phone network.

Tom Evslin, who has spent his entire life in telecom and data services industries, believes it's time for Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to come to grips with the reality that people are choosing cellular or Internet voice over traditional phone systems. He points to a recent report from the National Center for Health Statistics that notes that by 2018, only 6 percent of the U.S. population will be using the public switched telephone network (PSTN), which to non-telecom geeks means: your home phone from the phone company.

By Steven Ray
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Communication channels have long been employed as a means of conveying one's thoughts to others be it as a sound, a picture, writing ,or more recently as multimedia. No one can deny the importance of communications in the advancement of mankind - it is the extent of the capability of man to communicate his feelings, emotions, thoughts and more importantly knowledge to others that has allowed man to advance and stand out above all others. The rate of advancement and the rate of change are accelerating. In the current market economy, where business companies are in cut-throat competition with each other, it is the ability of a company to communicate its products and services effectively and efficiently that makes the difference between success and failure, and for some, life and death. For example, if a business company fails to represent its business model or services that it is offering to its customers, it can be easily surpassed by its competitors.

But the plethora of different communications channels comes at a heavy price - people are expected to be always "on", and to be able to juggle emails, phone calls from multiple sources, calendars, presentations, support documents and much more. The convergence of these communication channels onto integrated platforms has become the mantra of well-connected corporate - and this is being managed through digital platforms that integrate these various channels and other support systems that a company may use. The integration of voice into this converged platform is being managed using latest generation VoIP systems - Voice over Internet, or more specifically Voice over Internet Protocol, which now allows companies to provide enhanced and intelligent voice systems, and to channel their email, voice and documents over the same systems and the same channels.