Socket Access: Telecom Facts

How did you do? Find answers to "/ Your Telecom Knowledge" questions in the current issue of Access below, along with more interesting telecom facts.

Businesses can save an average of up to 45% off their telephone services by doing what?

Conducting a telephone services audit. Socket offers a FREE no-obligation assessment of telephone services for Missouri businesses. Call 1-800-SOCKET-3 today to find out more.
(Source: Champlain Business Journal, August 2003)

What simple task costs business an average of $612 per employee each year?
The deletion of junk e-mail. The average employee deletes 21 spam messages per day.
(Source: Nucleus Research)

Two-thirds of all business phone calls end how?

In voice-mail. It is estimated that the average worker spends the equivalent of three working days each year leaving voice-mail messages.
(Source: Harris Interactive Service)

20% of Americans think VoIP is what?

A hybrid car from Europe. One in ten surveyed believe VoIP is a low-carb Vodka.
(Source: Harris Interactive Service)

What natural event costs businesses and residents nearly $2 billion each year?

Computer damage and data loss due to lightning strikes. Be sure your business is safeguarded with the proper surge protection and data backup equipment for your business needs.
(Source: National Lightning Safety Institute)

Just 4.6% of businesses are expected to have done what before November 2007?

Switch to Windows Vista. Compare that figure to 2.2% of businesses that adopted Windows 2000 within its first year on the market.
(Source: Gartner)

By 2008, there will be more than one billion of these in the world.

PCs. That number is expected to double to two billion by 2015.
(Source: Forrester)

How many Google searches were conducted in May 2007?

More than four billion. Yahoo came in second with 1.5 billion searches, followed by MSN with just over 600 million.
(Source: Nielsen/NetRatings)