HotTelecom vs. Zoom Phone

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
HotTelecom
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
Beta 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
Zoom Phone
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
Built on Zoom's platform, Zoom's cloud phone consolidates business communication and collaboration into a single system. Available in 40+ countries, with expandable coverage through a bring-your-own-carrier offering, Zoom Phone supports inbound and outbound calling through the public switched telephone network (PSTN). Features: Post call summary & next steps A post-call summary from Zoom’s AI Companion keeps the focus on the conversation instead of…N/A
Pricing
HotTelecomZoom Phone
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
HotTelecomZoom Phone
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.—
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Features
HotTelecomZoom Phone
Cloud PBX
Comparison of Cloud PBX features of Product A and Product B
HotTelecom
10.0
5 Ratings
20% above category average
Zoom Phone
9.5
23 Ratings
15% above category average
Hosted PBX10.05 Ratings9.912 Ratings
Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)10.05 Ratings9.612 Ratings
Call reports10.05 Ratings9.220 Ratings
User templates00 Ratings9.216 Ratings
Directory of employee names00 Ratings9.321 Ratings
Call Management
Comparison of Call Management features of Product A and Product B
HotTelecom
10.0
5 Ratings
17% above category average
Zoom Phone
9.5
24 Ratings
12% above category average
Answering rules10.05 Ratings10.021 Ratings
Call recording10.05 Ratings9.822 Ratings
Call park10.05 Ratings9.917 Ratings
Call screening10.05 Ratings9.717 Ratings
Message alerts10.05 Ratings9.720 Ratings
VoIP system collaboration
Comparison of VoIP system collaboration features of Product A and Product B
HotTelecom
9.0
5 Ratings
8% above category average
Zoom Phone
9.6
21 Ratings
15% above category average
Audio conferencing9.05 Ratings9.620 Ratings
Video conferencing00 Ratings9.620 Ratings
Video screen sharing00 Ratings9.820 Ratings
Instant messaging00 Ratings9.617 Ratings
Mobile apps
Comparison of Mobile apps features of Product A and Product B
HotTelecom
-
Ratings
Zoom Phone
10.0
23 Ratings
18% above category average
Mobile app for iOS00 Ratings10.021 Ratings
Mobile app for Android00 Ratings10.016 Ratings
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User Ratings
HotTelecomZoom Phone
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(5 ratings)
9.5
(25 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
9.6
(4 ratings)
6.6
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
HotTelecomZoom Phone
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.
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Zoom
Zoom Phone is great for remote work. It's pretty user friendly. You can easily transfer calls to those who have Zoom extensions programmed into the address book. Obviously, this would apply to most tech nowadays, but call quality can suffer during bad weather.
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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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Zoom
  • Transcribes voicemails. Great for those verbose folks that leave long voicemails.
  • Loud and clear volume quality! Great in a busy office with lots of people talking.
  • Easy to keep track of who has called me. Has Caller ID which is helpful.
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Cons
Beta Company
  • Video calling is not available as a feature.
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Zoom
  • Voicemail handling for queues and groups can't have their own shared voicemail box.
  • They recently starting limiting how many greetings you can have per user, so you have to do some annoying workarounds by setting up additional users to accomplish it when you have a number of ACD.
  • Does not yet support texting.
  • I wish they had built in text to speech to quickly build new greetings or phone tree options when needed.
  • You can't just assign a phone number to a call queue or group. You have to use a specific user. Fortunately, the cost is reasonable per user so its not a big problem, but annoying none-the-less.
  • The Salesforce integration could be better, I hope they improve it. For example, voicemails and call logs don't show up in the native lightning case feed, but as tasks.
  • When callers call, I wish it would pop up how they called and what tree they went through. So we could see what number they called into and perhaps what menu options they used.
  • I'd love to be able to ask them questions to gather info for reps answering phones when appropriate.
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Likelihood to Renew
Beta Company
No answers on this topic
Zoom
Integrated into our network. System wide access. Staff are comfortable with the product
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Usability
Beta Company
No answers on this topic
Zoom
Zoom Phone has a very sleek design which makes it very easy to operate and use both in the setting up of and interacting in a meeting space. That being said, certain features can seem a bit crowded while trying to screen share or display video which somewhat defeats the purpose of the application as compared to a standard conference call.
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Support Rating
Beta Company
We are totally satisfied with help Customer Support. They were quick and responsive
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Zoom
Support have been great during the time for implementing Zoom Phones to our team of 50 people. There were times where they kept supporting us through links but more and more we had actual people getting back to us via emails so we are very happy overall. The product is so great, too.
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Alternatives Considered
Beta Company
No answers on this topic
Zoom
The big draw for us to Zoom Phone is that they shook up the market. They entered the phone market by taking their overwhelming success in video conferencing, and bringing that innovation and skill to designing a game changing phone system. There is really not much difference among the other systems, except maybe their interface. They're a dime a dozen. Zoom does things differently, focusing in on the needs of the end users, and delivers a solid system that is worry free for I.T. departments
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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.
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Zoom
  • We're better able to work together as a team answering phones multiple people can be logged in to answer at the same time.
  • The voicemail transcription feature helps with sharing messages to different departments.
  • Overall, we're able to answer more calls and have fewer callers being sent to voicemail.
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ScreenShots

HotTelecom Screenshots

Screenshot of Personal account on the website. User can perform an order there.