Customer service that picks up — on the first ring
Netexem business VoIP comes with a support line that a real human answers in under 60 seconds. No phone trees. No offshore queue. No ticket number. Your account has a name and a direct line, and we answer the phone — yes, even Saturday.
Most SMB phone providers sell you a platform and then hide behind a chatbot. Netexem does the opposite. When something breaks, a real human picks up — on the first ring, with your account already on screen. No bots, no hold music, just answers. That is the difference owners coast to coast tell us about most: the phone provider that actually answers its own phone.
A real cloud PBX for small businesses across the U.S.
Business VoIP is not the same as a chat app or video conferencing platform — Netexem is a real phone service provider, not Zoom, Microsoft Teams Phone, or Google Voice. It is a hosted phone system that runs your SMB phone system in the cloud — a cloud PBX — and connects to the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) through SIP trunking. UCaaS (Unified Communications as a Service) folds calling, business SMS, MMS, and a shared team inbox under one per-seat license. Every line is a real DID (Direct Inward Dial) you can publish on a business card, route through an auto-attendant, IVR, or call queue, and forward to a Yealink, Polycom, or Cisco IP phone — or the [softphone](/softphone) on a personal device. We provision your cloud PBX, port your existing numbers, and walk your team through it before go-live. See the [phone service](/services/phone) for hardware-first deployments, the [Yealink desk phone catalog](/devices) for hardware, and the [pricing page](/pricing) for tier-by-tier breakdown.
How business VoIP works for an SMB phone system
Three pieces make a business VoIP deployment work. The cloud PBX is the brain — it runs your extensions, auto-attendant, call routing rules, voicemail, and call recording. SIP trunking is the connection — it carries calls between the cloud PBX and the public phone network, so every DID can ring a desk phone, the softphone, or both at once. Endpoints are what your team actually touches — Yealink desk phones, the Netexem softphone on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro, the desktop softphone on Mac and Windows, and the browser softphone at app.netexem.com. Native SMS and MMS ride the same DIDs, so the number that rings the desk phone also receives the texts. No second app, no second fee.
A real REST API, webhooks, and deep links
Most SMB VoIP providers gate their API behind an enterprise sales call. Netexem ships a production REST API, signed webhooks, and deep links on every plan — for the way developers actually work. Trigger an outbound call from your CRM. Get a webhook when a voicemail lands. Deep-link from a Zendesk ticket straight into a callback. Same per-seat price; no API tier, no quote-for-pricing wall. Builders coast to coast use it to glue Netexem into their stack in an afternoon.
Number porting that keeps the business phone numbers you already advertise
Number porting is the part most SMBs worry about — and most often the part the previous provider made painful. Netexem files the LOA, coordinates with the losing carrier, and schedules the cutover for an after-hours window so the front desk never misses a ringing line. Local DIDs in every U.S. area code we serve, toll-free numbers, and existing fax lines all port in. Existing fax DIDs port to a virtual fax endpoint on the cloud PBX. Call routing rules carry over the same week — auto-attendant trees, ring groups, business-hours schedules, voicemail-to-email. Start a porting conversation on the [contact form](/contact) or call us — we pick up.
Native SMS, auto-attendant, and call routing in the box
Most SMB phone systems treat business SMS as a paid add-on. Netexem business VoIP ships native SMS and MMS on every DID with no extra app and no extra line item — and we handle 10DLC for you, so business SMS works on day one. Inbound texts land in a shared team inbox the whole front desk can see, assign, tag, and reply from. Auto-attendant trees and call routing rules are configurable per extension, per business hour, per holiday. Customers describe how this works on the [reviews page](/reviews).
Bundle business VoIP with dedicated fiber for one bill
You can bundle business VoIP with [business internet](/services/internet) — dedicated fiber sized for your call volume — and [business TV](/services/tv) for the lobby on a single invoice. The bundle is a convenience play, not a lead product. The cloud PBX, the SIP trunking, and the softphone work fine over any business-class circuit; bundling just means one number to call when something goes wrong — and that number is answered by a real human.
A real phone service provider, not a chat app — compared to RingCentral, Nextiva, Vonage, 8x8, Dialpad, and GoTo Connect
Buyers often compare Netexem against RingCentral, Nextiva, Vonage, 8x8, Dialpad, and GoTo Connect — and against UCaaS substitutes Microsoft Teams Phone and Zoom Phone — when shortlisting business VoIP. Compared side by side, Netexem ships hosted PBX + SIP trunking on the same per-seat price as a real REST API, signed webhooks, and deep links, with CRM integrations to Salesforce, HubSpot, Zoho CRM, and Pipedrive, plus helpdesk hooks to Zendesk and Freshdesk. Hardware support spans Yealink, Polycom (Poly), Cisco IP phone, and Grandstream — bring your own carrier (BYOC) or bring your own device. The differentiator buyers point to most is the support model — a real human picks up. See the side-by-side [alternatives hub](/alternatives) for per-competitor comparisons.
E911, HD voice, and call analytics — the standards a real phone service provider carries
Every Netexem DID is E911-enabled with dispatchable location data registered in NENA-compatible PSAP records, so emergency calls reach the correct local responder. HD voice rides Opus and G.711 codecs with jitter-buffer tuning per circuit and MOS-score monitoring per call. Call analytics and CDR (Call Detail Records) export from the cloud PBX dashboard or stream over webhooks. Security: SRTP-encrypted media, TLS 1.3 SIP signaling, encrypted SIP at every endpoint, encrypted in transit and at rest, BAA available for covered entities, and TCPA-compliant SMS opt-out.
What happens if your internet goes down — cellular failover, call forwarding, and disaster recovery
If the office circuit drops, inbound calls reroute automatically to a failover destination — a cellular failover number, the Netexem softphone over LTE, or a different DID — via cell phone failover and automatic call forwarding rules configured in the cloud PBX. Voicemail still records and transcribes. Disaster recovery is built into the platform: redundant SIP registrars, geographically distributed media servers, and per-tenant SIP registration heartbeats. When the office circuit returns, desk phones re-register and routing returns to normal.
Uptime we can actually defend
Netexem has held 100% uptime over the last 24 months across the SMB book — measured by per-tenant SIP registration heartbeats and platform-side websocket monitoring, reported quarterly, methodology published in the customer portal. Your service agreement does not guarantee the number contractually; the operating posture and a real support team make the number achievable.