“We’re bringing a North American first to Canadian small businesses by making it possible for them to use their mobile phone to connect their entire business and team, eliminating the need for dated desk phones,” said Nitin Kawale, President, Enterprise Business Unit, Rogers Communications. “We think it’s about time Canadian businesses have access to a mobile solution that not only lets them improve productivity and truly operate business on the go, but also realize significant cost savings.”

Small businesses today spend an average of $25-50 a month for each landline² and with Rogers Unison, customers can save at least 40 per cent of those costs by cutting the cord to their traditional desk phone. This could amount to at least $300-600 a year, on average, for every landline they eliminate. Customers can keep their landline number, and the solution can be set up within minutes, no application or software installation is required. It’s powered by BroadSoft, the number one global provider of Unified Communications and Collaboration (UCC) services³, and as of today is available to small businesses across Canada on an existing Share Everything_TM for business plan. A Rogers Unison solution for larger businesses and the public sector will be available later this year.

Rogers Unison offers small businesses a simple web portal to change or modify features such as:

• Look professional with ‘Auto Attendant’: A fully automated answering system greets customers and directs calls to the appropriate live person based on a directory of options.
• Never miss a call with ‘Hunt Groups’: With Hunt Groups, incoming calls are routed from team member to team member until a live voice answers. This ensures a small businesses’ customer is never left on hold and can always reach someone live.
• Create local identities with ‘Dual Persona’: Now customers can keep their existing local phone number and also use it on their mobile device. They can also appear to have a local presence in multiple regions by adding and routing ‘local’ numbers from multiple regions to their mobile device.