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Verizon Business Digital Voice comes with a welcome call on logging into the admin portal, and advice to keep a backup administrator for urgent changes. We do that work: the call flow, the greetings, the phones and the AI receptionist, fitted to how you answer.
Facts about Verizon Business checked in October 2026, from their published pages and public records; third-party estimates are labelled. Every claim links to its source.
Fit
Verizon
A business already on Fios that has an administrator on staff to run the portal, and is ready for a 2-year term.
SLINC
Businesses that want the system fitted to how they answer the phone, at each location, and one firm accountable for the phones and the network under them, on any circuit.
Side by side
| Topic | Verizon Business | SLINC |
|---|---|---|
| Advertised price | “Up to 99 VoIP lines $20-$35/mo/line”: with a Fios bundle, $20 for the first line and $25 for each additional line; $35 a line without Fios. [1] | We don’t publish a price. We write one monthly agreement for your office after the walk-through. |
| What sits on top | “$99.99 activation and $200 installation fees apply.” “Additional charges apply for inside wiring and/or other installation services.” [1] | One monthly agreement, written for your office after the walk-through. Ask to see every line of the written proposal before you sign. |
| Phones | “Phone equipment purchase req’d, starting at $85.00.” And: “we do not allow customers to bring their own VoIP equipment.” [1] | Yealink desk phones configured for each person: keys, labels and sidecars, built and test-called before cutover. Standard SIP phones you already own can often stay. |
| Who builds the call flow | Your administrator, who “can set up call routing features, like an Auto attendant or Hunt Group, for the entire business.” [2] | We do, with you, per location: the routes, the hours and holidays, and what happens when nobody can pick up. In writing, approved by you. |
| Who fixes the network | Verizon provides the circuit. Business Digital Voice “requires an existing Internet connection of 5Mbps or higher.” [1] | We do. The firewall, switches and Wi-Fi run under the same agreement, on Fios or whichever circuit you choose. |
| AI receptionist | The phone feature is an “Auto Attendant: A virtual receptionist that helps customers self-select who they need to talk to.” The page makes no AI receptionist claim for Business Digital Voice. [1] | Built in-house on the newest realtime voice models and written into your call flow. It answers in your business name from a script we write with you, and warm-transfers urgent callers only after the person says yes. |
| Contract and exit | “2 year contract required.” Early termination: “35% of base monthly charges for unexpired term.” The term “automatically renews at then-current term rates unless canceled within 30 days prior to or 60 days after the term is renewed.” [1] | Written into your agreement before you sign. Ask for a copy at the walk-through. |
| Changes after go-live | You and your users, online: features are managed “through My Account for both your entire business and individual users,” and each user manages their own “through the My Phone site.” [1] | A call or an email in plain English. We make the change and confirm it back. |
Verizon
“Up to 99 VoIP lines $20-$35/mo/line”: with a Fios bundle, $20 for the first line and $25 for each additional line; $35 a line without Fios. [1]
SLINC
We don’t publish a price. We write one monthly agreement for your office after the walk-through.
Verizon
“$99.99 activation and $200 installation fees apply.” “Additional charges apply for inside wiring and/or other installation services.” [1]
SLINC
One monthly agreement, written for your office after the walk-through. Ask to see every line of the written proposal before you sign.
Verizon
“Phone equipment purchase req’d, starting at $85.00.” And: “we do not allow customers to bring their own VoIP equipment.” [1]
SLINC
Yealink desk phones configured for each person: keys, labels and sidecars, built and test-called before cutover. Standard SIP phones you already own can often stay.
Verizon
Your administrator, who “can set up call routing features, like an Auto attendant or Hunt Group, for the entire business.” [2]
SLINC
We do, with you, per location: the routes, the hours and holidays, and what happens when nobody can pick up. In writing, approved by you.
Verizon
Verizon provides the circuit. Business Digital Voice “requires an existing Internet connection of 5Mbps or higher.” [1]
SLINC
We do. The firewall, switches and Wi-Fi run under the same agreement, on Fios or whichever circuit you choose.
Verizon
The phone feature is an “Auto Attendant: A virtual receptionist that helps customers self-select who they need to talk to.” The page makes no AI receptionist claim for Business Digital Voice. [1]
SLINC
Built in-house on the newest realtime voice models and written into your call flow. It answers in your business name from a script we write with you, and warm-transfers urgent callers only after the person says yes.
Verizon
“2 year contract required.” Early termination: “35% of base monthly charges for unexpired term.” The term “automatically renews at then-current term rates unless canceled within 30 days prior to or 60 days after the term is renewed.” [1]
SLINC
Written into your agreement before you sign. Ask for a copy at the walk-through.
Verizon
You and your users, online: features are managed “through My Account for both your entire business and individual users,” and each user manages their own “through the My Phone site.” [1]
SLINC
A call or an email in plain English. We make the change and confirm it back.
The setup
Verizon’s onboarding teaches your administrator the portal. With us, there is no portal to learn.
The network
“BDV requires an existing Internet connection of 5Mbps or higher.”
The circuit is only the start. We run the firewall, switches and Wi-Fi under the same agreement, on Fios or whichever circuit you choose, so choppy calls are ours to trace and fix.
Terms
What Verizon’s own terms and pricing pages say.
Fair is fair
Honest answers build trust, so here is where they win.
Ask us
Verizon says Business Digital Voice does not support alarm, credit-card, fire or elevator lines. [Verizon Business Digital Voice] If you have them, list them at the walk-through and we will lay out the options for each line.
Switching
Your numbers come with you, and your Fios internet can stay. We time the port around your Verizon term and cut over after you close.
Auto body
Questions
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Start with a walk-through
We walk the office, map how your calls actually flow, and hand you a written design to set beside anything you have been offered.
Verizon is a trademark of Verizon Trademark Services LLC. SLINC is not affiliated with Verizon. Prices and terms were checked in October 2026 and change often; check the linked source. Spotted something out of date? Email support@slinc.co.