UC for the cost of a coffee a week? It's a Breeze

National systems integrator NSC Group will from today sell its Breeze managed unified communications service that will cost business clients about the same as a coffee a week a user.

As reported by CRN last February, it stemmed from a collaboration with US communications specialists Shoretel, which supplied the assets, to provide layers of functionality depending on the contracted terms, said NSC managing director Craig Neil.

The entry cost of 60 cents a week a user

Based on the entry cost of 60 cents a week a user, a small business could provide its 15 staff with their communications needs for about $3000 a year, reducing afterwards tax by about a third because it fell pursuant to this agreement the category of an operating expense.The price included third-party headsets and handsets, Neil said.

Providing support at the back end was the data-networking business of industrial-automation provider ZI-ARGUS, that NSC bought yesterday. In March, NSC bought Perth PABX Service Group for an undisclosed amount, believed by CRN to be less than $1 million.