If you’re sick of the service of your major telecomms company, Akiva may be the team for you!
For all your business broadband and SIP phone solutions, choose Akiva.
What is SIP?
Business leaders are rapidly switching to cloud-based phone service as a way to equip staff with tools needed to communicate effectively. One of the more cost-effective options is to use SIP-based phone systems.
SIP, which is short for Session Initiation Protocol, has quickly become the main topic of discussion for businesses looking to expand their company’s phone service beyond one location.
SIP is more than a phone line, it’s a phone system that the team at Akiva assist our clients to customise to their needs without every component being an extra cost.
If you want Caller ID, Voicemail on the phone or emailed copies of Voicemail, Call Recording, Call Transfer or Call Forwarding, these services are standard on Akiva plans – not billed as extra services on top of line rental!
If you don’t know what you need, we can help you work out what will help your business. It may be an Auto Attendant to direct callers to the right place or different features needed at night or on weekends than what happens during the day – Akiva provides the service not just the product!
Traditional copper phone lines are on the way out.
In a sign of the times, the latest device reaching the end of the line is the land line. That’s right, home phones are set to be phased out over the next few years.
This makes SIP phone solutions even more critical to businesses who are still operating on traditional copper-wire phone services.
Why join up with Akiva?
We’re Local
Work with a local Christchurch-based company instead of a large corporate, with call centers based in Ashburton
Talk to Real People
You can actually KNOW your service representative, you won’t be put on hold at call centres, and you won’t to talk to robots
Completely Customisable Plans
Phone and Internet plans are customised to your specific needs – not ‘out of the box’ like larger companies
Plus! All profits go towards our two sister companies doing good in the local community.
Canterbury’s leading in-school bee & hive education programme. A not-for-profit programme designed to teach children the value of biodiversity, food security and sustainability.
The Avon River Red Zone provides an unmissable opportunity to return habitat & restore biodiversity, helping to bring some of our endangered native species back from the brink and into our city.
Popular Phone & Broadband Combos
Residential
Residential
• 1 SIP Line
• Unlimited Local and National minutes
• 50 Mobile minutes
• 100/100 Unlimited Broadband
• 1 Yealink W53P Cordless IP Handset
$119/mth
excluding GST
SOHO
Small Business
• 3 SIP Lines
• Unlimited Local and National minutes
• 100/100 Unlimited Broadband
• 150 Mobile minutes
• 2 Yealink T41S IP Handsets
$159/mth
excluding GST
Commercial
Commercial
• 6 SIP Lines
• Unlimited Local and National minutes
• 200/200 Unlimited Broadband
• 200 Mobile minutes
• 1 8 Port PoE Gigabit Ethernet Switch
• 1 Yealink T48S IP Handset
• 4 Yealink T41S IP Handsets
$280/mth
excluding GST
Meet the Team
Hayley Guglietta
Director/Technical Sales and Marketing Manager
About Hayley
Hayley has a long association with Avaya IP Office Systems both as a Technician and a Sales expert. She embraced SIP after the February 2011 Earthquake as a way to move her customers out of the CBD quickly and get their businesses back up and running. Since then she hasn’t looked back and can’t remember the last time they put an analogue or ISDN service in.
When Hayley is not working, you will find her either in her garden, the Richmond Community Garden or playing with her chickens and bees.
Hayley sits on the board of Avebury House Community Trust, The Richmond Community Garden, the Christchurch Envirohub and is Chairman of the Richmond Business and Residents Association.
Hayley also holds an MBA from Canterbury University which she completed in 2010.
Carlo Guglietta
Director/Audio Visual Solutions and Data Cabling Infrastructure
About Carlo
Carlo loves Audio Visual so much so there is sometimes no division between his work time and personal time, as it all involves watching something or listening to something. If you are looking for a perfect picture and the best sound quality, Carlo is your guy. He is a purest, so don’t ask him to compromise the quality of the equipment, especially in a commercial environment.
Carlo’s is certified in Leviton, Krone, Hubbell and Legrand data solutions as well as a certified installer of Lutron Automation products.
Carlo is a keen diver and has a strange fascination with Captain America – each to their own.
Philippa Harris-Conyers
Operations/Office Manager
About Philippa
Philippa’s main job is to keep the ship pointing in the right direction, we don’t know how she does it, but she does.
She has 4 children to wrangle at home and another 5 to wrangle at work, then on top of that she does all our administration, accounts, programming and workflow.
The majority of the physical programming for our cloud solutions is done by Philippa before the phones go out on site.
You would think she has no time for anything else but she loves to read, socialise and spend time at the side of a basketball court or a swimming pool.
Brenda Franz
The ‘Fix-it’ Chick
About Brenda
We reckon Brenda has more knowledge about Telecommunications provisioning than the combined teams of Spark and Vodafone. She has been around for over 20 years and has worked for both Telecom, Telstraclear and Hub stores, this gives her a comprehensive understanding of how the big networks work. This is her superpower! she can get to the bottom of problems quickly to get them resolved. Her industry knowledge is really useful if you need an audit done on your current set up as she can show you how small changes can often result in a better solution as well as cost savings.
Brenda likes to spend early mornings gardening before it gets too hot. She is very crafty and likes to upcycle furniture.
Apply Now to win your first 3 months of Phone & Internet FREE* for your small business.
Simply fill out this form and you’re in the draw!
*Promotional offer is for the SOHO Small Business Combo plan only. If you are a winner and require a larger plan we will work with you directly on customising the plan and discounting your first 3 months with the base-level SOHO plan costs. Entries close 14th Octobber, 2021 at 11:59pm. Winners will be notified within 2 weeks of promotional offer closing.
Apply Now to win your first 3 months of Phone & Internet FREE* for your small business.
Simply fill out this form and you’re in the draw!
Enter here to win
*Promotional offer is for the SOHO Small Business Combo plan only. If you are a winner and require a larger plan we will work with you directly on customising the plan and discounting your first 3 months with the base-level SOHO plan costs. Entries close 14th October, 2021 at 11:59pm. Winners will be notified within 2 weeks of promotional offer closing.