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    HotTelecom

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ABeta Company's HotTelecom is a service that consists of a wide range of VoIP needs with over 6000 virtual phone numbers both local and mobile for business, designed to present an easy to use and affordable means of communication. HotTelecom offers virtual phone numbers, toll-free numbers, SMS numbers, SMS numbers for registration and multi-channel numbers, and virtual PBX set-up. All these come with clear-voice technology, for high sound quality.

    $5

    Monthly fee + connection fee

    Sangoma Asterisk

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AAsterisk is an open source toolkit for building communications applications, now owned and supported by Sangoma (acquired with Digium in 2018). Most Asterisk-based systems and solutions require additional components (e.g. IP-phones, VoIP gateways or telephony interface cards, and other hardware), and expertise.N/A
    Pricing
    HotTelecomSangoma Asterisk
    Editions & Modules
    Virtual fax number
    $30
    Monthly fee + connection fee
    Virtual PBX
    $65
    Monthly fee
    Direct virtual phone number
    from 5
    Monthly fee + connection fee
    Virtual SMS number
    from 7
    Monthly fee + connection fee
    Toll-free (800) number
    from 7
    Monthly fee + connection fee
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    HotTelecomSangoma Asterisk
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsEach price is the price of monthly fee. There might be an additional connection fee for the products.—
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    HotTelecomSangoma Asterisk
    Considered Both Products
    Beta Company
    No answer on this topic
    Sangoma
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    5 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    HotTelecomSangoma Asterisk
    Cloud PBX
    Comparison of Cloud PBX features of HotTelecom and Sangoma Asterisk
    Feature
    HotTelecom
    10.0
    5 Ratings
    23% above category average
    Sangoma Asterisk
    -
    Ratings
    Hosted PBX10.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)10.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call reports10.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call Management
    Comparison of Call Management features of HotTelecom and Sangoma Asterisk
    Feature
    HotTelecom
    10.0
    5 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Sangoma Asterisk
    -
    Ratings
    Answering rules10.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call recording10.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call park10.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call screening10.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Message alerts10.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    VoIP system collaboration
    Comparison of VoIP system collaboration features of HotTelecom and Sangoma Asterisk
    Feature
    HotTelecom
    9.0
    5 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Sangoma Asterisk
    -
    Ratings
    Audio conferencing9.05 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Score8.2 out of 10
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    Enterprises
    Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Call Manager)
    Score8.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    HotTelecomSangoma Asterisk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.6
    (4 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    HotTelecomSangoma Asterisk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Beta Company
    When our clients or partners call our corporate number they can now reach any needed employee or department by themselves. It is simple - they just need to use voice assistant and press the needed number.
    Read full review
    Sangoma
    Digium Asterisk is well suited for a city government as a communications solution for internal and external use. Other options like PBX are more expensive and hard to escalate. VoIP makes it easier to use the communications infrastructure instead that already exists rather than having to wire every phone when the solution is a digital or analog phone. In my city, government offices are not in the same place, which makes it harder to communicate everything together.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Pros
    Beta Company
    • Friendly and responsive customer support.
    • Wide geographical coverage.
    • It's easy to set up.
    • High-quality phone calls.
    • There are a lot of additional services available.
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    Sangoma
    • Easy communication and configuration with many soft phone and hard phone models
    • A great community that helps the software have more and more functionality
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Cons
    Beta Company
    • Video calling is not available as a feature.
    Read full review
    Sangoma
    • Transferring to a Voicemail is particularly hard to do, and calls tend to drop when transferring.
    • I would like a different interface; the current one feels clumsy
    • Over the weekend, it logs you out, and you have to remember your password or reset it to gain access.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Usability
    Beta Company
    No answers on this topic
    Sangoma
    User friendly. Very little training to use it
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Beta Company
    We are totally satisfied with help Customer Support. They were quick and responsive
    Read full review
    Sangoma
    I have asked in the not so recent past about having my phone updated with my saved Digium "favorites" list but it doesn't seem that this is possible
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Alternatives Considered
    Beta Company
    No answers on this topic
    Sangoma
    Recently I've been using Vonage Business, and while it is far more expensive and a lot less configurable than Digium, the mobility is essential for my new role. Digium is ideal for a business with both a very technical staff and a user base that is not remote. Digium was selected due to price and ability to create custom applications.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Beta Company
    • We've got the option to use another marketing channel with HotTelecom's SMS virtual phone numbers. They also provide us with an ability to count everything in marketing campaigns made with SMS numbers and to make the right decisions based on the received data.
    Read full review
    Sangoma
    • being zero cost, we saved at least 3 million on what a legacy pbx would have cost
    • the savings and speed means lower cost on our service making us more competitive
    • stability
    Incentivized
    Read full review
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