Answering machines vs. voicemail - the environmental comparison
It's the little things we frequent overlook that really mount up when it comes to electricity use and common environmental impact. A watt here, a watt there all adds up - particularly when you multiply it by millions of consumers doing the same thing. The Wuppertal Institute in Germany looked into answering machines vs. voicemail kind services and came up with some startling data.
For example, telephone answering machines use electricity 24/7 and can consume up to 100 kWh per year. According to the Wuppertal Institute, by replacing all the estimated 18 million conventional answering machines with voicemail, it could save around 788 GWh per year and 600,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions in Germany alone.
The Daily Green reports that answering machines in USA residences currently consume nearly two billion kilowatt-hours annually. A switchover of all these systems to voicemail services would be equivalent in terms of emission savings to taking 250,000 cars off the road.
The Wuppertal Institute also points out:
- A small number of centralised voicemail service platforms, which can cater to several users, consume significantly less materials in production than a large number of decentralised answering machines.
- Voicemail reduces the amount of problematic waste - scrapped electronic appliances - over 1,000 times less.
- There are transport savings - everything from shipping millions of devices, to consumers making trips to buy answering machines and have them repaired or serviced.
- Voicemail services are more flexible and versatile. When you buy an answering machine, what it does is what it does. When new features become available that have you drooling, what usually happens? You go out and buy one. Voicemail services can be scaled up; broadening their range of features with no new hardware required by the consumer.
- Costs for voicemail services are quite low when you take into consideration the costs involved with buying answering machine equipment, upkeep and running costs.
Like standby power loads, little things like answering machine power consumption and the associated e-waste issues are so simple to overlook in our lives. Once your answering machine has bitten the dust; perhaps consider making it your last one and switch to voicemail services.
Answering Service Home Business: Verbal World, Inc. Launches AcquaintT
Empower Your Telephone Communications with AcquaintT The most flexible and fully customizable VoIP phone service available, that you use with any phone
The three most appealing features are: . Acquaint asks your screening questions of every caller . You can connect as several of your phones as you want . Enhanced streamlined voicemail
Acquaint was created with people who rely on the phone for business in mind. More specifically independent or home based businesses or people in sales. The makers of Acquaint realized that time spent on the phone requires to be more efficient and "user friendly" for both the sales person and the customer. Acquaint is also an incredible service for people in eBusiness, allowing valued customers to connect to you anytime anywhere just by dialing one number. This means that if your offices are spread all over (even worldwide) you can have one number to connect to all offices.
The most impressive part of Acquaint is the capability to configure any feature as you see fit. The screening questions are the best example. . kind in what you want your Acquaint to ask your callers . Acquaint asks your callers the screening questions you created . You hear the answers to your screening questions, in the caller's voice, before you decide to take any call, therefore qualifying every caller . If you do not take the call the answers are appended to the front of each voicemail . Processing voicemail is no longer a painful process . You can quickly decide to listen to, call back, or delete a message while the screening question answers are playing or during the body of any message
The Acquaint subscriber can also create a virtual PBX with menu options that inform and others that connect to outside phone numbers. The greeting is completely customized as well. It's all done instantly with your online account. You can also make outbound calls to any number through Acquaint using any phone that you've connected.
John Kelley, Chairman and CEO for Verbal World said "Acquaint is a revolutionary new way to give everyone first-class phone service without the cost or hassle of new equipment, or hiring someone to do it for you".
Compared to other services available, for example, some telecom companies charge $100 or more to add a business line to your home package, Acquaint is a convenient, powerful and affordable way to make your phones work for you for just $29.95 a month.
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