Zoom For Dummies

Chapter 11

Making Calls with Zoom Phone

IN THIS CHAPTER

Adding Zoom Phone to your existing subscription

Making inbound and outbound calls via Zoom Phone

Discovering the features and benefits of Zoom Phone

For several reasons, odds are that you don’t give much thought to the idea of a traditional work phone. First, depending on your vocation, they might as well just not exist. Maybe you’re a grade-school teacher, a digital nomad, a freelancer, a touring musician, or a Lyft driver. Second, your employer might provide traditional landlines at the office, and the technology behind these phones doesn’t matter to you at all. Third, your company may provide you with a dedicated smartphone that you’re supposed to use for business purposes only. Ever see someone packing two iPhones? Make no mistake, though: The explosion in technology has not resulted in the death of dedicated office phone numbers — at least, not yet. Oodles of enterprises possess a legitimate need to outfit their employees with them. The options for employers in this regard, however, are a far cry from their counterparts in the 1950s and 1960s. In this vein, companies such as Vonage, Nextiva, RingCentral, and others have ...