Swine flu - secure your business continuity telecoms

It's not too late to put business continuity communications in place to help safeguard your company against the impact of swine flu, warn telecoms experts at Commsready.

With tens of millions of calls to the UK Pandemic Flu hotline, many bosses wrongly fear it is now too late for contingency planning.

But Commsready's latest inbound telephony solutions are web-based - so firms do not have to spend huge amounts of time and money on business continuity telecoms.

It means that staff quarantined at home because of swine flu can continue working. Calls to their office numbers are seamlessly re-directed to them.

Business continuity telecoms in three easy steps

Companies simply use a website to set up pre-determined call diversions - then activate them with the click of a mouse when needed:

• Step 1. Simple Preparations - set up a series of seamless call diversions with the website's easy-to-use drag and drop functionality
• Step 2. Take Action - one click is all it takes to make the call diversions live if staff need to work off-site due to swine flu or any other disaster
• Step 3. Successful Business Continuity - inbound callers are seamlessly redirected to alternative landline or mobile numbers set up in the pre-determined disaster recovery plan.

This technology means it is no longer time-consuming or expensive to plan ahead in the face of impending threats to business continuity. Prices start at just £5.99 per month.

The Health Protection Agency estimated there were 30,000 new cases of swine flu in England last week and 110,000 cases the week before.

Business continuity - "no room for complacency"

"The rate of infection seems to slowing but with 140,000 new cases of swine flu in two weeks there is no room for complacency," said a spokesperson for Hampshire-based Commsready.

"With the economy already in a difficult state, don't let swine flu be the final straw that breaks your company - not when today's business continuity telecoms solutions are so cheap, quick and easy."

Earlier this month Business Link emailed companies, urging them "to ensure they have effective contingencies in place."

Business Link recommends that companies:

• ensure plans are in place to counter the threats of people critical to operations going off sick
• counter potential supplier disruption by planning ahead
• look after employee welfare, briefing them fully.

Commsready has a range of telecoms solutions to help companies:

• plan and implement business continuity and disaster recovery strategies
• create more sales opportunities and capitalise on them
• comply cost-effectively with new telecoms legislation.

For more information about business continuity and disaster recovery telephony, please contact Commsready Marketing Manager Colin Mann, 0808 168 6600, , www.commsready.co.uk

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Commsready is the Web site trading name of Uniworld Communications which offers complete telecoms solutions for businesses, charities and public sector customers.
Commsready offers a wide range of cost-effective telephone numbers and call management services that suit any business. Products include geographic and non-geographic telephone numbers, Web-based inbound call solutions including Call Statistics, Contact Point and Contact Path plus outbound call services including line rental and call tariffs.
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