Hey, on the bright side, nearly none of the hotels are 911-compliant so
your odds of being busted are really low! Yay?
Obviously the major wholly-owned brands probably are compliant. From my
little dabbling in the industry I would put money on less than 50% of
franchises and independents being
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> From: "Duncan Turnbull via VoiceOps"
> It really depends on the hotels. These days they don’t seem to want to pay
> for a
> high service level and often can change a room if a guest is upset. Like
> everything landline use is decreasing and there isn’t as much
Yeah, somewhat. I can very effectively deal with healthcare in the
scenario and scale of a doctor’s office or even multi-office doctor’s
building. But not a hospital, which is a hotel with more checkins than
checkouts (too dark?). We have one transportation customer, no big deal.
I learned a
> On 5 Feb 2024, at 11:41, Carlos Alvarez via VoiceOps
> wrote:
>
> Anyway, add that to the massive list of why dealing with hotels is a career
> onto itself, and I backed out.
I expect that would be true of any industry or sector which has a somewhat
idiosyncratic usage of telephony, e.g.
“How can a user do completely the opposite of the established process and
make everything harder on everyone?”
One of the subsequent complaints from the desk is that transferring the
call then requires them to introduce it and say what room they are in,
which otherwise would be shown on the
It really depends on the hotels. These days they don’t seem to want to pay for a high service level and often can change a room if a guest is upset. Like everything landline use is decreasing and there isn’t as much money in it anymore so it’s a best efforts service which is more manageableA lot
> On 2 Feb 2024, at 17:45, Carlos Alvarez via VoiceOps
> wrote:
>
> The desk told me they get less than a handful of calls from rooms in a day.
> People pick up their cell phone and call the main number to reach them.
While I've never pretended to understand telephony end-users well, this
On Feb 2, 2024 at 1:21:53 PM, Jay Hennigan via VoiceOps <
voiceops@voiceops.org> wrote:
>
>
> Post-cellular, hotel phone systems are a cost center and most properties
> spend as little as possible to keep them functioning. The ability to
> easily order room service is about the only profit to be
On 2/2/24 11:40, Nate Burke via VoiceOps wrote:
We run a WISP, and have been doing business phone systems for a long
time. We provide Internet connections and Voice Trunk services to
hotels today, but a few are asking us to quote taking over their
internal phone networks (Usually from Mitel
e via VoiceOps"
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Sent: Friday, February 2, 2024 1:40:33 PM
Subject: [VoiceOps] Hotel Phone Requirements
We run a WISP, and have been doing business phone systems for a long
time. We provide Internet connections and Voice Trunk services to
hotels today, but a few
We run a WISP, and have been doing business phone systems for a long
time. We provide Internet connections and Voice Trunk services to
hotels today, but a few are asking us to quote taking over their
internal phone networks (Usually from Mitel systems).
Just curious what caveats others have
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