Carbon Neutral Carrier Pre Select (cps) Helps Businesses Go Green And Save Money

For the last few years, businesses have been placing more emphasis than ever on carbon neutrality. The movement began in 2008 with the launch of the Greening Government ICT: Efficient, Sustainable, Responsible strategy, which prompted companies to reduce the energy consumption of their ICT systems to become carbon neutral by 2012 and to make all departments neutral for life by 2020.

Normal desktop phones are well known to come with a sizable carbon footprint; cost effective and flexible IP telephony technology can offset these carbon emissions by helping you 'green' your IT infrastructure and telephony usage with carbon neutral telephony minutes.

Voice over IP, or VoIP telephony systems play a large role in decreasing carbon emissions as well as adding an incredible amount of flexibility to the working environment. Employees are able to work directly at home rather than make the commute to and from work, thus reducing overall carbon emissions even more.

The VoIP transition can be either instant or gradual, depending on your needs. UK businesses no make use of SIP trunks as well as IP extensions for their existing PBXs, giving them the flexibility that comes with IP without the need to replace expensive existing telephony hardware. The possibilities are endless.

To further emphasize the point, the Efficient ICT, Greener Government 2011 conference will bring together 350 local and central government delegates in September, 2011 to discuss further opportunities for reducing emissions. Some topics on the agenda are "achieving cost efficiency," "reducing power costs," and "mobile working" with emphasis on more efficient mobile technologies, the very definition of VoIP and IP telephony.

It's now a viable option for any SME business to make the switch to carbon neutral telephony, mostly because of Carrier Pre Select, or CPS.

CPS is the process used by carrier networks to shift any calls to carbon neutral soft switch carriers. Carbon neutral minutes are also known as Green Minutes or Green Telephony.

The push for change comes when the Cabinet Office goes so far as to recommend "VoIP as a replacement for desk-top phones". Recent documents that they published pushed for departments dealing with ICT procurement to "review and reduce energy consumption of PBX equipment".

We're living in the future of telephony technology. Don't get left in the dust while your competitors upgrade to IP telephony and help green your telephony.

So what are the real benefits of using carbon neutral telephony in your business?

Lower Cost Greater flexibility for employees Gain more carbon credits Effortless upgrade to existing PBX hardware

Now is the time to embrace the future. Save money, and help the environment while you're at it with Carbon Neutral Green Minutes.


Copyright (c) 2011 Ian Roberts