Ooma, Inc., a provider of advanced communications services for businesses and consumers, today announced that SONIFI, a leading provider of hotel technology, has selected Ooma phone and communications services to offer to SONIFI customers.
SONIFI delivers Wi-Fi®, in-room entertainment and related services to more than a million rooms across 5,000 hotel properties around the world. For the first time, SONIFI is expanding into voice communications with offerings from Ooma that include:
- Unified communications – a full-featured cloud-based service for front desk and back office workers with phone, videoconferencing, chat and more
- SIP trunking – replacement of legacy on-premise PBX systems with voice over internet (VoIP) lines, reducing costs and complexity while preserving existing room phones
- POTS replacement – a turnkey solution for replacing obsolescent copper-wire phone lines, also known as plain old telephone service or POTS, with reliable and secure connections for life-safety devices such as fire alarm panels and elevator phones
- Internet backup – wireless internet backup to keep hotels connected during broadband outages
- Integration with property management systems – links to leading property management software (PMS) platforms to smoothly manage features such as wake-up calls, voice messages and room service orders
“We picked Ooma as our telecommunications partner because of the wide range of solutions they offer and because they have more than two decades of experience in delivering high-quality services,” said Paul Johnson, SONIFI’s senior vice president of strategic accounts and internet services. “Our customers rely on SONIFI’s expertise to deliver the best guest technology experiences. We’re proud to recommend Ooma to our customers for their telephony needs.”
“We’re delighted to be chosen by SONIFI because we know how much hotel operators trust them to provide solutions that are both powerful and cost-effective,” said Rajesh Shah, Ooma’s director of strategic sales. “We look forward to helping SONIFI customers migrate away from aging on-premise systems, as well as maximize efficiency in new facilities.”
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