Cheap Telephone line Rental - only R1259.74 per line!

<p>I lead a religious community of the Roman Catholic Church. My predecessor was offered every saving in heaven and on earth by a forceful PureVoice representative selling his product. The call prices, in SA, are reasonable, the overseas calls (and the nature of our community demands calls to Africa and Europe on a regular basis) remain a total mystery (call recording done for extra per month). The line costs are also reasonable, enabling us to have a single number working as three lines. These feed into our own PBX.</p> <p> </p> <p>BUT, built into the rental is the cost for their equipment, R2239.22 per month. This consists of one gateway and one router - the total cost of which is about R12 600.00 giving a generous 10% for import duty, based on the mpost expensive options available on an internet search. The cost of this equipment, as levied by PureVoice over the life of the contract is R134 353.20.</p> <p> </p> <p>AND, Even as the line (R109) costs and the Concurrencies (3) come to R406.00 - giving a generous saving over Telkom, there are added Voice Access costs, Data Costs etc. coming to and added R1134.00 per month, before a call is made.</p> <p> </p> <p>The whole package costs , before a call is made, R3779.22</p> <p> </p> <p>We have the equivalent of three lines via the concurrency. This means an actual line cost of 1259.74 or close to seven times the line cost from Telkom.</p> <p> </p> <p>This might discount against call costs if we were making over R100 000.00 worth of calls a month, compared to Telkom flat rates. For a smaller operation this is financial suicide.</p> <p> </p> <p>Small Businesses beware the hard sell of these sharks!</p>