Working as specialist suppliers of telecommunications solutions and equipment within the education sector, Business Telecom^cf are one of the few companies with experience and a sympathetic understanding of the unique requirements of this demanding sector.

Business Telecom^cf have an excellent track record of installations of all types and sizes from Primary and Junior School through to Mid and High School establishments. What all installations in the education sector have in common is to achieve a combination of reliability, quality and best value for both product and service. Business Telecom^cf have supplied many hundreds of schools across many local authorities including Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Kent, Lincolnshire, London, Surrey, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Northants and are planning to operate nationwide within the next 5 years.

Modern educational establishments have very distinctive requirements from their telephone systems. Extensions in all classrooms are now commonplace for security reasons – Business Telecom^cf supply and install structured cabling solutions as required. Voicemail modules means that teachers who move between classrooms, and as such do not ‘belong’to any single extension, can call in to a central resource to retrieve messages. Cordless mobile handsets are also becoming increasingly popular for certain staff members such as Head Teachers, Bursars and Caretakers who are mobile around large school sites and who may need to be contactable at any time. These cordless phone options replace outdated paging systems that require a staff member to then find the nearest telephone once paged.

Automatic answer facilities are also proving to serve an important function at peak periods on central switchboards. Many schools use an auto answer service between 8am and 9am to handle and record absence notifications, provide details of school events, trips and other general information.

This not only frees up essential staff resource, but used effectively, often enhances the parent/school interaction experience.

All schools are different - Business Telecom^cf recognise that and ensure that solutions supplied after consultation with school managers provide all of the features and functions required, including a comprehensive and reliable aftercare service to include maintenance and support. In fact, one Procurement Officer for a local authority sums up perfectly;

“It is difficult to find a company like Business Telecom^cf that listen first and then provide a professional solution.They have undertaken and supplied everything they said they would, when they said they would, with the support service afterwards exactly what was promised too.”