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FreePBX: Free Phone System for Business and Ministries

Posted by John Saddington on Jun 21, 2010

We wrote about OpenVBX, an open source phone system, the other day and one commenter (thanks Ben!) noted another system that I wasn’t familiar with (but am now!).

Enter FreePBX, a free phone system for businesses (and ministries)! Here’s what they say:

FreePBX is an easy to use GUI (graphical user interface) that controls and manages Asterisk, the world’s most popular open source telephony engine software.

FreePBX has been developed and hardened by thousands of volunteers over tens of thousands man hours. FreePBX has been downloaded over 5,000,000 times and estimates over 500,000 active phone systems.

If you don’t know about FreePBX, you are probably paying too much for your phone system.

So, are you paying too much for your small business phone system? How about your church?

Is this something you’d setup and use?

In today’s economy it might be worth the effort!

John Saddington

John is the Chief Editor @ The 8BIT Network and Senior Blog Junkie here at ChurchIT.He enjoys Triple-Tall Americanos, developing Wordpress Themes, and a few other Random Things.

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3 Responses to “FreePBX: Free Phone System for Business and Ministries”

  1. oschurch
    Monday, June 21, 2010 at 11:55 am

    Last week just found out our work phone system is Asterisk based. Not sure if it’s FreePBX for the front end, but it’s been a good system as far as I know.

    Kevin
    http://opensourcechurch.com

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  2. oschurch
    Monday, June 21, 2010 at 1:57 pm

    btw, I thought I would mention…FreePBX is free and open source. However, you still have to provide hardware to run it on (it even runs on plug computers). You also have to pay for your VoIP trunks (essentially, your phone lines) and public phone numbers. The cool thing is that you have your choice of providers though so you can get the service level you need.

    Kevin
    http://opensourcechurch.com

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