Comtact®, as part of a communications strategy, will improve business continuity, commitment and access whilst at the same time helping to reduce mobile phone bills.
FACT: - 25% of all intra office calls are mobile to mobile
What do you get from a Private Mobile Network?
- Reduced calling costs between mobiles in the office
- Reduced calling costs from mobiles in the office
- Reduced calling costs from landlines to mobiles in the office
- Reduced costs for SMS
- Control Churn Costs for the mobile handset or PDA
- Business continuity
- Stronger relationship with you mobile service provider
Reduced Calling Costs
Mobile phones allowing freedom of movement and the ability to be contacted by phone, are a natural part of today's lifestyle and a fundamental element of business mobility. But mobile usage in the business is adversely effected by:
- High call costs discouraging companies from allowing free use of mobiles as their primary telephone device
- Poor coverage in some geographic areas reducing the ability to depend on the mobile and still be in contact
- Ever evolving end user devices increasing the business ownership costs and mobile handset churn overheads
With a Private Mobile Network (PMN) the mobile phone is connected to the company PBX and provides zero traffic cost for internal calls just like any other office extension form the PBX. Private Mobile Exchange (PMX) fully integrates the mobile phone into the company PBX network, providing all the PBX telephony services and allowing employees to become truly mobile professionals and the business to control their rising mobile phone bills.
Users receive a substantial comfort factor from their mobile phones, which is one of the reasons why they have become ubiquitous devices within the business world. They carry the users address lists, they ensure users that their key contacts can find them when needed, and assuming good mobile geographic coverage they are always available.
Escalating mobile phone bills are a serious concern to most of today's business managers and even the reduced corporate rates resulting from ever increasingly price wars between mobile operators are not providing a solution to controlling mobile phone costs in the business.
PMX allows each of your mobile phone users to work in the corporate office building and use their mobile phone as an extension of the PBX avoiding call costs for on network calls. Calls placed between sites and on the campus can be passed over the corporate IP network reducing the corporate mobile phone bills while enabling users to work with their device of choice and fully integrating the mobile phone into the telephony services provided by the business.
Control Churn Costs
Changing and upgrading mobile phones can be a major cost to the business and many of the recently announced business telephony mobility solutions on the market such as dual GSM VoIP mean that new specialised phone sets are required. This represents both a significant cost to the business and change of usage to the end user. Private Mobile eXchange (PMX) supports any 2G or 3G device over GSM and any PBX either TDM or IP. Standard GSM mobile phones will work because the Fixed & Mobile Convergence solution adheres to GSM standards for call control. This includes all telephones produced since 2000 by all the major manufacturers. Tri band mobiles have been successfully tested. If in doubt please send us details of your mobile handset and we will confirm if it has been tested with PMX.
Stronger Relationships
Comtact® has been working in conjunction with both Businesses and Operators to provide commercially viable in-building coverage schemes which, when combined with a tariff that promotes free inter-workgroup calls, has accelerated fixed-to-mobile migration.
This activity can only enhance the Customer/Operator relationship, as the benefits of mobility within the workplace become available without the risk of spiralling costs to the Customer and increase loyalty within the customer's employee base.
The Private Mobile Network (PMN) can be connected directly from the company site to any network operators IP or traditional PSTN network.
Connecting to an existing PBXM
A typical customer premised deployment of a Private Mobile eXchange (PMX) consists of one or more Base Transceiver Station (BTS) units on the corporate LAN/WAN infrastructure and a centrally located server with associated gateways into the PBX. For SIP based IP-PBX direct connection is possible. For all other solutions a gateway is provided. The majority of PBX types can be supported – for confirmation for the ability to support your company PBX please advise us of your PBX make and model and we will confirm if it can interoperate with PMX.
Installation with no PBX
A TDM or IP-PBX is not required in order to deploy PMX. Telephony switching for mobile phones is provided by the PMX itself. A typical customer premised deployment of a Private Mobile eXchange (PMX) for a site with no existing PBX consists of one or more BTS units on the corporate LAN/WAN infrastructure and a centrally located server with associated gateways into the public switched trunk network.
Mobile Phones
Changing and upgrading mobile phones can be a major cost to the business and many of the recently announced business telephony mobility solutions on the market such as dual GSM VoIP mean that new specialised phone sets are required. This represents both a significant cost to the business and change of usage to the end user. Private Mobile eXchange (PMX) supports any 2G or 3G device over GSM and any PBX either TDM or IP. Standard GSM mobile phones will work because the Fixed & Mobile Convergence solution adheres to GSM standards for call control. This includes all telephones produced since 2000 by all the major manufacturers. Tri band mobiles have been successfully tested. If in doubt please send us details of your mobile handset and we will confirm if it has been tested with PMX.
Want a Quotation for PMX?
Contact us with details of your site size and number of mobile users and we will return a budget price for your consideration. Prior to any deployment a radio frequency check will be made by our engineers to confirm the availability of GSM spectrum at your specific locations. This survey ensures that the system will function without interference from other GSM transmitters in the area and ensures we avoid any GSM black spots for reception in your area. A survey will provide a map of the location of the BTSs and to ensure that there is appropriate coverage for your office or campus.
