University of Nottingham migrates to VoIP phones

VoIP phones are helping the University of Nottingham to cut its calling costs by half.

The academic institution has put in place VoIP phones both to reduce costs and also to allow remote students to stay in contact - it has campuses in Malaysia and China as well as the UK.

With its choice of IP telephony solutions, students on any one of these can call their counterparts elsewhere in the world for free, with the voice data carried over the internet.

Families can download their own copy of the software, so parents can speak to their undergraduate offspring for free as well.

Telecoms group leader at the university Anthony Tunsley tells Computer Weekly: "We realised we needed to cut costs and migrate to VoIP."

He adds that the savings have been made after migrating just ten per cent of the university's phone network to VoIP, meaning the total costs could be cut further in the months to come.