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Last week, we introduced our OnSIP Polycom promotion, which awards $300 OnSIP credit to anyone that buys 5 or more Polycom phones with OnSIP provisioning from Telephony Depot.

This week, we want to make you aware of yet another way to save money when purchasing new phones, the Polycom end-user trade-in rebate program. Between the two programs, you can save over 70% on 5 great IP 335 model phones when you get started with OnSIP!

Wouldn’t it be strange if your email provider forced you to download software to your computer/smartphone in order to access your email? Essentially, that’s what Skype forces you to do, access the Skype services ONLY via a Skype application.

Doesn’t leave you much choice, does it? The beauty of SIP is that it can be used for just about everything the Skype service offers on software or hardware that YOU CHOOSE!

Three years running now, I’ve taken family trips to Grand Cayman. As you can imagine, it’s hard for me to “shut off” work while on vacation, especially since we’re selling the tools to help people work anywhere, anytime!

The Small Business Loan Fallacy

I talk to many small business owners, customers, partners, and friends, who all tell me they can’t get loans from banks. (Thankfully, this isn’t problem for us. I’m the CFO of Junction Networks, and we are fully bootstrapped and profitable.) On the other hand, I hear so much in the news about the $ billions of federal programs that are helping small businesses. So, I thought I’d look into the matter.

SIP access to Google Voice Numbers is no longer available. As it was reported and discussed by Todd Vierling, Alok Saboo, and Dan York over the past couple of days, access to Google Voice numbers WAS available in the following format:

Android officially announced the availability of native SIP support in the upcoming release of Android 2.3 Gingerbread. This is huge!

With a SIP address, you can make free voice and video calls to your friends and colleagues who also have one. Our company has been doing this for years. In fact, today, we announced our 10,000th account.

This blog is by Rob, President of Junction Networks.

So, here’s the deal. We’re growing. FAST. Over the years, we’ve marketed our services honestly and openly, sharing tons of knowledge about SIP, VoIP, and business communications. The volume of content on our websites reflects this.

Customers often ask us if we offer voice talent to create customized Auto-attendant recordings, e.g. “thank you for calling Widget Co. For sales, press one….”

While we don’t have professional voice talent here, we can recommend a great service to get this done. It’s called Voices.com.

Voices.com is a marketplace for professional voice talent. There are thousands of talented voices ready to quickly record any message you might like for your OnSIP account.

Many people have speculated why Google is giving away free voice calls from Gmail. “SKYPE killer!” “A shot across the bow of Facebook!” “The beginning of the end of every non-Google social anything!”

But maybe it’s just more of the same from Google.

According to Google's First Quarter 2010 10-Q, 97% of revenue comes from advertising. No matter how you slice it, Google is in the advertising business, not the telephone business, or any other business for that matter.

We've hit an important milestone here as depicted in this photo from my office yesterday. I wonder if anyone can tell. A little help with some of the artifacts in this photo:

Polycom phone: No, we're not celebrating our acceptance into the Polycom Field Verified Partner Program. That happened last year.