VoIP Reviews – 3CX Phone System in the Press
3CX Phone System for Windows has been the subject of various articles written by editors who are experts in VoIP. There are many reviews and press reports that highlight the benefits of 3CX Phone System for businesses – in this section we list only a handful of them. For our latest company and product announcements visit the VoIP newssection of the 3CX Blog.
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The 3CX Partner Program is recognized as being an elite IT Channel Program by CRN |
| 3CX has been selected by UBM Channel and CRN as a 2012 Emerging Technology Vendor. 3CX Phone System drew praise for being innovative, easy to manage, and because it works with any SIP IP phones and runs on a standard Windows system. Read more here. | |
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CRN Awards 3CX as an Emerging Technology Vendor for the Second Year Running |
| 3CX has been selected by UBM Channel and CRN as a 2012 Emerging Technology Vendor. 3CX Phone System drew praise for being innovative, easy to manage, and because it works with any SIP IP phones and runs on a standard Windows system. Read more here. - Everything Channel, August 2012 |
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3CX Named a 2011 CRN Emerging Technology Vendor |
| 3CX has been selected by Everything Channel as a 2011 CRN Emerging Technology Vendor. The annual list features the most innovative vendors who not only deliver technology that is easy to use, but can generate the high margins solution providers require. 3CX has been added to the list due to its robust product, 3CX Phone System.Read more here. - Everything Channel, August 2011 |
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3CX Receives Unified Communications Magazine 2009 Product of the Year Award |
| Technology Marketing Corporation announced that they have named 3CX Phone System for Windows as a recipient of its 2009 Unified Communications magazine Product of the Year Award. Read more here. - Unified Communications Magazine, April 2010 |
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3CX Phone System wins WindowsNetworking.com Readers’ Choice Award |
| Leading Windows Networking resource site, WindowsNetworking.com, announced today that 3CX Phone System for Windows was selected the winner in the IP PBX Server category of the WindowsNetworking.com Readers’ Choice Awards. - WindowsNetworking, May 2009 |
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3CX – An IP-PBX for Windows in Under 10 Minutes |
| In Hak5.org’s Internet Television show, Matt Lestock shows just how easy it is to set-up 3CX. Some Qoutes: “I really would suggest anyone with a Windows machine lying around the house who has a need for a basic PBX for use with either a VoIP provider, or a PSTN gateway look at 3CX.” “My company is a Microsoft shop, end of story. I have no need, nor the time to do something in linux that would take me personally longer than it would in Windows.” - Hak5.org, February 2009 |
| Version 7.0 Upgrade Makes 3CX’s IP PBX More Complete, Easier to Use | |
| Voipplanet.com published a story by Ted Stevenson following the roll out of 3CX Phone System for Windows version 7. In this very complete article, Ted covers everything from 3CX’s interface improvements, added APIs, enhanced mobility to users, the system’s Windows integration, virtualization and Sangoma support. Read the article here. - Voipplanet, December 2008 |
| 3CX is “Certainly the Biggest” | |
| Daniel Sweeney interviews Nick Galea, CEO at 3CX, for Processor Magazine and writes about 3CX dominance within the enormous PBX marketplace as the leading Windows-based IP PBX and how it is rethinking the software PBX. Read more here. - Processor Magazine, October 2008 |
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Computer Shopper Highly Recommends 3CX Phone System |
| Karl Wright reviews the free edition of 3CX Phone System for Windows for UK’s biggest technology magazine, Computer Shopper, and concludes that he, “couldn’t really fault 3CX’s Phone System. The free edition has most of the functions a home office or small business will need… considering you can download it for free, we highly recommend it.”Read the full review here - Computer Shopper, October 2008 |
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3CX VoIP Solution Makes an Impression on PC PRO Editor |
| Jon Honeyball with PC PRO UK believes that analog telecom is a thing of the past, and that to get more value from a computing infrastructure it is wise to switch to VoIP. He went on to test 3CX Phone System for Windows and after installing the IP PBX he concluded, in his own words, that “Overall, I’m very impressed with this solution.” Read the article here. - Computer Shopper, October 2008 |
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Libera il VoIP Interview with Nick Galea |
| Italian blog Libera il VoIP published an interview with Nick Galea, CEO 3CX, where he answers some very interesting questions on 3CX Phone System for Windows, the company’s vision, the advantages of a software-based PBX and the future of VoIP. Read the full interview in Italian. - Libera il VoIP, August 2008 |
| VoIP & Gadgets Blogger Tom Keating Writes About 3CX Free SIP Softphone | |
| Tom Keating, CTO, VP and founder of TMC Labs, posted a blog entry on 3CX Free VoIP Phone where he highlighted the soft phone’s integration with MS Outlook. He also wrote about the other key features of 3CXPhone such as: support for several SIP profiles, MWI, easy deployment and more. Read more here. - TMCnet’s VoIP & Gadgets Blog, July 2008 |
| VoIP Blogger Garrett Smith Reviews 3CX IP PBX | |
| Well-known VoIP blogger Garrett Smith reviewed 3CX Phone System for Windows and wrote a very positive post on his blog. He concluded that: “Honestly, it was tough to find much wrong with the software. It is easy and simple to set-up and maintain, it has a pretty robust feature set, supports a wide variety of hardware and is very affordable…”Read the full review here. - IT Reviews, April 2008 |
| IT Reviews: 3CX Phone System for Windows | |
| IT Reviews (http://www.itreviews.co.uk/), the UK website for independent reviews of hardware and software, reviewed 3CX Phone System for Windows and declared that it is “a surprisingly easy to manage alternative to hardware-based IP telephony products,” and that, “the end result is a fully featured in-house PBX, offering support for as many SIP-enabled handsets as you like plus voicemail, PSTN connectivity, automated call handling and a whole lot more”. Read the full product review. - IT Reviews, April 2008 |
| PC World Review: 3CX Phone System Free Edition IP Telephony | |
| A very positive review of our free edition was published by Personal Computer World. The editor invites readers to “build your own small-business PBX with this easy-to-deploy Windows software”. Read the full review here. - Personal Computer World, March 2008 |
| 3CX Solves SIP/NAT Woes for SMBs | |
| Following the launch of 3CX Phone System for Windows version 5.1, Adam Stone from voipplanet.com interviewed Nick Galea, CEO 3CX, on the many benefits of the IP PBX and the new 3CX tunneling functionality. Read the full interview here. - Voipplanet, February 2008 |
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3CX Phone System Review in ZDNet |
| Alan Stevens from ZDNet reviewed 3CX Phone System for Windows and found it to be a very good product: “Very easy to configure and manage, 3CX Phone System for Windows scores well on functionality and is compatible with most SIP handsets, gateways and services.” Read the full product review. - ZDNet UK, February 2008 |
| “Our IP PBX is Only 30% of the Cost of a Cisco Phone System” | |
| Following an interview with 3CX’s CEO Nick Galea, Computerwoche’s editor Jurgen Hill writes about 3CX Phone System for Window’s market position, the advantages of an IP PBX against a traditional PBX, and the free edition of 3CX Phone System. Read the full article in German. - Computerwoche, November 2007 |
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SIP is Driving the IP Telephony Revolution |
| Rich Tehrani, President and Editor-in-Chief of TMC interviews Nick Galea, CEO 3CX on the evolution of the IP communications space and the direction of 3CX. Read the full interview. - TMCnet, August 2007 |
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3CX Phone System Free Edition Wins Gold Award |
| Ricky Magalhaes in his review for WindowsNetworking, awarded 3CX Phone System free edition the Gold award with 4.6 points out of a possible 5. “I found the PBX to be stable and easy to use and in a few minutes I was able to set up a replica to our more costly hardware (proprietary alternative) that we use in our office. I could not believe this system was free.” The reviewer goes on to state, “If you are looking at moving to VoIP consider this product as a great introduction to the VoIP/SIP space.” Read the full review. - WindowsNetworking, May 2007 |
| A Great, Free VoIP System | |
| In an article for Network World, Gearhead columnist Mark Gibbs reviews 3CX Phone System free edition, describing it as a “great, free VoIP system”. “3CX Phone System is excellent. It is a lot simpler to set up and manage than, say, Asterisk, and is a useful test bed and learning tool as well as a great small-business solution,” comments the reviewer.Read the full review. - NetworkWorld, April 2007 |
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3CX Challenges Asterisk With its Very own Windows-Based Solution |
| Beniamino Profeta, author of “Libera il VoIP” blog reviewed 3CX Phone System and remarks that, releasing a new PBX based on Windows, in a world previously dominated by Linux-based solutions, is no easy task. However, in his opinion, 3CX rose to the challenge and the result is an easy-to-use, well-developed, complete application, which is a breath of fresh air compared with the Asterisk applications the industry is familiar with.Read the full review in Italian - Libera il VoIP, April 2007 |












