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WirelessDevNet.com Press Release
GoHello Launches Desk Phone Killer in the UK
Mobile World Congress, Barcelona - February 11, 2008 - GoHello™, a service which aims to rid businesses of their desk phones, launches in the UK today. With an internet-based switchboard management system, GoHello delivers all the features of an office telephony system through any mobile phone – without needing any new hardware or specialist telecoms staff.
The technology behind GoHello is already proven in Denmark, with over 16,000 users across companies ranging from just five employees to over 2,000.
In stark contrast to traditional and IP telephony, installing GoHello takes less than ten minutes. Companies download a software switchboard to their reception PC, but need make no changes to their mobile phones. The system interfaces with MS Exchange and IBM Domino programmes, automatically incorporating employee calendars into the switchboard view on the PC, along with caller groups and other simple reception tools. GoHello is sold as a monthly subscription for each active user, with no long term contract.
Francois Mazoudier, CEO of Speakanet, the company behind GoHello commented, “Businesses are becoming increasingly mobile, however until now the company switchboard has remained resolutely office-based, requiring companies to invest in complex equipment, specialist setups, and forcing staff to give out multiple phone numbers. GoHello enables employees to use just the one phone – most people’s preference – the mobile, without losing the features that they require from their desk phone to do their job. Essentially, GoHello lets businesses choose where and when they want to work.”
GoHello supports any mobile phone, routing calls from the company’s main number to mobiles without incurring the costly mobile termination fees usually associated with these call transfers. GoHello can scale for both small and medium enterprises as well as larger corporations and by merging the office phone and the mobile into a single 100% mobile solution, GoHello makes hardware-based office phone systems (whether PSTN or VoIP) obsolete.
GoHello Specifications*
Main number
Choice of fixed line main number - local and national numbers
Existing number portability
Interactive Voice Response (IVR), recordable IVR messages
Native support for multiple languages (incl. preset announcements)
Selection of hold music
Call waiting queue, with automatic queue position message
Receptionist call load-balancing
Open and closed hours management
Receptionist system
PC based switchboard
Single screen overview of all employees and groups
Employee directory, group overview, contacts directory
Free-text search function within across all groups and employee
Incoming call information display (CID)
SMS and email notifications to employees
MS Exchange and Lotus Domino calendar plug-in (displays employee availability status in real time)
Online Management Control Panel
24/7 access to web-based control panel
All settings changed in real time, switchboard updates with no restart/reboot
Employee Database with easy Excel import/export function
System / Admin messaging centre with history
Invoice and payment details, with order history and live payment
Real-time system, usage and performance statistics
On-line support
About Speakanet
Speakanet is the technology company behind GoHello™, the service that replaces the office telephone system (whether traditional or VoIP) with a 100% mobile, hardware-free, self-provisioned and web enabled service. Speakanet already has over 16,000 active fee-paying users in Denmark and is set for further launches around Europe throughout 2008 – starting with the UK. Speakanet was founded in 2001, and is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, with staff in London and Prague and Geneva.
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