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Telephony for distributed teams

A distributed team needs one company number and a phone that is not bolted to an office. With sipbox people call from the browser or a softphone anywhere: the customer sees the company number, the conversation is recorded, and the history stays with the company rather than on a personal handset.

What breaks when the team is not in one office

Everyone calls from their own number

The customer sees an unfamiliar mobile and does not pick up. And if they do, that relationship leaves with the employee.

Conversations live nowhere

What was promised to a customer is known only to whoever said it. There is nothing to hand over during a holiday or a departure.

An on-premise PBX does not reach remote staff

The hardware sits in the office and half the team does not. VPNs and port forwarding work intermittently and break whenever someone moves.

How sipbox handles it

The PBX lives in the cloud, so where a person sits stops meaning anything.

A phone in the browser

No handset, no installation: open the portal, check the microphone, call. Dial pad, hold, transfer, a second incoming call with line switching.

One number for the company

Outbound calls carry the company number wherever the person is. Inbound calls are distributed by the call flow, not by who happened to answer first.

Colleagues with live statuses

You can see who is on a call, who is free, who set do-not-disturb. A call can be picked up or transferred without asking in chat whether someone is available.

A region that matches your obligations

Voice runs through the server of the chosen region — Russia or Singapore — and recordings stay there. For a team spread across countries this is a data-residency question, not a latency one.

What the team gets

What it costs for a distributed team

Priced per seat for the people who need a phone. Geography does not change the price — it is the same wherever the person sits.

Team sizePlanPer month
5 peopleStart$25
12 peopleTeam$108
25 peopleTeam$225

Monthly billing; paying annually is 20% lower. Browser calling is included in every plan.

Questions about telephony for remote teams

What does someone need to start calling?

A browser, a headset and an account. Calls run over a secure connection straight from the portal page: nothing to install, no admin rights required on the machine. Microphone and speaker are selected with a sound check.

Can we call from a phone rather than the browser?

Yes, through a softphone: the person gets SIP credentials and enters them in an app on their smartphone or on a desk handset. Same number, same queues, same recording.

Our people are in different countries — where does the call originate?

Through the server of the region chosen for your organisation. Outbound rules are configurable across 245 destinations: you can allow the ones you need and close the rest so stray international calls never appear on the bill.

What about call quality on a poor connection?

Browser calling is sensitive to link quality — on an unstable connection a mobile softphone copes with packet loss better. If someone’s connection is persistently bad, it is more honest to say so upfront than to blame the PBX.

How do we hand over work when someone leaves?

Call history and recordings belong to the organisation, not the person: access is revoked, the data stays. If calls were reaching the CRM, everything about the deal remains there too.

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