Is your business reevaluating its business phone service contract? If it’s been a while since you’ve gone through this process, you’ll find that the landscape has changed considerably in recent years. Traditional landline phone service used to be the only choice. Upstart challengers like VoIP hit the scene, but early iterations were clearly inferior to the status quo.

Not anymore: hosted VoIP business phone technology has evolved, and businesses of all sizes are turning to hosted VoIP service with increasing frequency.

We highly recommend VoIP to just about every customer who’s evaluating phone service or looking for ways to trim their telecom budget.

Here are the reasons why.

1. Massive Cost Differences: VoIP Is More Affordable

The biggest driver of VoIP adoption is cost: the average monthly cost per “line” (there aren’t really lines with VoIP, but that’s a separate conversation) on VoIP is often half the cost of traditional phone service.