{"id":5144,"date":"2017-07-10T16:20:24","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T16:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skyswitch.com\/?p=5144"},"modified":"2022-09-27T16:59:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T16:59:22","slug":"mitel-plays-catch-up-acquisition-of-unified-communications-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/blog\/mitel-plays-catch-up-acquisition-of-unified-communications-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitel Plays Catch-up With The Acquisition of Toshiba Corporation\u2019s Unified Communications Business"},"content":{"rendered":"

Way back in March we first heard about the demise of the Toshiba Telecommunications Systems Division and wrote a blog post about it<\/a>. A\u00a0Memorandum of Understanding between Mitel and Toshiba stating that Mitel would acquire certain assets, inventory and support obligations from Toshiba Corporation\u2019s Unified Communications business was signed two months later. After another twoTmonth wait, the deal is finally done.<\/a>\u00a0 Toshiba resellers now get to hitch their wagon to yet another dinosaur of telecom. These old-guard companies are trying hang on to any business they can.<\/span><\/p>\n

You cannot rely on any partner 100%<\/span><\/h2>\n

I\u2019m sure that many Toshiba resellers have been using the \u201cwait and see\u201d approach to this news and merger.\u00a0 That has been four months of uncertainty and doubt.\u00a0 This is exactly why you need a back-up provider when offering white label service.\u00a0 Whether you are reselling service from a large established partner, or you are reselling service from one of the newer UCaaS providers, you never know when disaster will strike. Your partner may disappear, either permanently or for an extended outage.\u00a0 You must\u00a0have a back-up provider with a migration plan in place. Otherwise, someone else\u2019s disaster may quickly become your demise.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Bigger is not always better<\/span><\/h2>\n

We\u00a0have seen the many of the largest players in premise and hosted telecom undergo major changes.\u00a0 Some of them have declared bankruptcy and disappear completely. Mergers and acquisitions have swallowed others. When searching for a White-Label Partner (either as a primary or secondary provider) don’t be afraid of smaller providers. They often have substantial advantages over some of the more familiar UCaaS providers.\u00a0Newer providers were founded, designed, and implemented to provide these kinds of hosted services. They are not dealing with legacy business models, customers, or infrastructure.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When it\u2019s time to find a new white label partner for your hosted telecom or UCaaS business, we would love to show you the SkySwitch Platform.\u00a0 Schedule a Demo Today!<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Way back in March we first heard about the demise of the Toshiba Telecommunications Systems Division and wrote a blog post about it. A\u00a0Memorandum of Understanding between Mitel and Toshiba stating that Mitel would acquire certain assets, inventory and support obligations from Toshiba Corporation\u2019s Unified Communications business was signed two months later. After another twoTmonth…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[35,36,37,38,30],"class_list":["post-5144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-hosted-pbx","tag-mitel","tag-toshiba","tag-white-label-pbx","tag-white-label-ucaas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}