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What Is a Fixed Cellular Terminal (FCT)?
A Fixed Cellular Terminal (FCT) is a device with GSM technology that connects
to your PBX phone system and IT infrastructure.
What Does An FCT Do?
An FCT will help you to reduce your communications bill, by allowing you to
save money on fixed line to mobile calls.
Fixed Cellular Terminals are a significant way of reducing your fixed to mobile
operating costs. Many UK businesses are now recognising that in order to
survive and be more competitive in an ever increasingly price conscious
marketplace that they need to be in control of the key ‘day to day’ operating
expenses. The cost of communicating with your existing customers, prospective
customers, employees and suppliers is a heavy burden, especially when your
business is calling mobile telephones day in, day out.
Calls from your business PBX to mobile phones can command more than 60% of your
total phone bill. You must make use of the latest available technologies in
order to make the best financial savings that help to allow your business
maintain a competitive edge over your rivals. Fixed Cellular Terminals allow
you to reduce the financial burden of fixed to mobile communications costs,
which for many businesses can be a truly significant saving.
How Do Fixed Cellular Terminals Work
No Fixed Cellular Terminal
With no Fixed Cellular Terminal (FCT), when an employee makes a call to a
mobile phone it is processed through your PBX phone system and then without the
deployment of a Fixed Cellular Terminal, is then sent over the Public Service
Telephone Network (PSTN) and then passed out to the mobile phone network,
eventually connecting you to the mobile number you dialled at a rate of
typically up to 16p per minute.
With Fixed Cellular Terminal
When a Fixed Cellular Terminal is deployed within your business, all calls that
are made to a mobile phone are passed through your PBX to the FCT. The FCT then
establishes what, is essentially a mobile to mobile call and then passes it out
through the mobile phone network, connecting you to the number dialled at a
reduced rate typically as low as 5p per minute.
Are Fixed Cellular Terminals (FCT’S) Legal?
The use of FCT equipment and SIM cards is perfectly legal if used within the
corporate environment for the purposes of least cost routing over the GSM
network. It is the use of Fixed Cellular Terminal equipment and SIM cards that
are utilised for commercial resale or the international termination of traffic
that is illegal. OFCOM can provide full details on this and any other
communications related matters.
As you can see from above, a business that places a large volume of calls to
mobile phones can make significantly large savings through the implementation
of a Fixed Cellular Terminal (FCT).
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