Achieving effective internal communications amongst geographically diverse offices can be quite a challenge for today’s business leaders. Especially if your company still uses a traditional telephony service such as PSTN.

After all, copper wires that come along with legacy phone systems certainly won’t stretch over oceans to connect your domestic offices with ones located across multiple continents. And if you do execute long distance communications, it’s likely that the international call fees cost your business an arm and a leg. There’s a reason why many of your competitors are adopting IP-PBX phone systems that enable a seamless international communications experience that affords scalability, cost efficiency and robust unified communications (UC) collaboration features.

As a matter of fact, research from TeleGeography revealed that switched telephone lines have declined at a CAGR of 4 percent while VoIP subscriptions have grown 18 percent annularly since 2008. It’s evident that IP-based telephony adoption is on an uphill climb and will continue to reach new heights as businesses demand more quality and flexibility from their phone systems.

By implementing Cloud PBX in all of your organization’s office locations, you can reduce telecom costs and improve your every-day communications with international colleagues. More specifically, when each of your offices uses a Cloud IP-PBX you can connect each office through a bridge which enables you to makes calls among different branches for free by simply utilizing your Internet connection.

When you can quite literally “bridge the gap” between all of your office locations you’ll realize substantial benefits such as:

Reduced telecom fees

When you need to communicate with colleagues in remote locations frequently, your telecom bills will start to pile up as traditional telephony doesn’t make long distance communication easy. So rather than letting your telecom bills pile up, put an end to long distance call charges altogether. Implementing a Cloud PBX and consequently creating bridges to connect remote offices allows you sidestep fees as every phone call is routed via the Internet.

Stronger corporate culture

If it’s difficult to consistently communicate with your globally dispersed colleagues it’s likely that your overall corporate culture is falling to the wayside.  Frequent communication fosters stronger understanding and growth as an organization despite geographic locations. When you can connect offices by way of IP-telephony communication can occur more consistently and business leaders can thereby enforce company values and goals more effectively.

Increased scalability

Your business has already expanded to include several international branches. Who knows where this growth will lead you? A Cloud IP-PBX will scale alongside your business no matter how many more office locations emerge over time. IP-telephony enables organizations to add phone lines and connect offices quickly and at no extra charge. As such, you can rest assured that when your business grows your phone system won’t present an issue—such as productivity lulls incurred by the inability to suitably connect offices disparate phone systems.

International organizations can continue to minimize the distance between remote offices by implementing web conferencing solutions as well. Learn more about the many advantages of Web conferencing by clicking here.