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Astound Hosted Voice vs Comcast Business VoiceEdge comparison

 

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Astound Hosted Voice
Ranking in Hosted and Cloud Based VoIP
7th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Comcast Business VoiceEdge
Ranking in Hosted and Cloud Based VoIP
2nd
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Hosted and Cloud Based VoIP category, the mindshare of Astound Hosted Voice is 4.5%, up from 3.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Comcast Business VoiceEdge is 8.3%, down from 19.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Hosted and Cloud Based VoIP Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Comcast Business VoiceEdge8.3%
Astound Hosted Voice4.5%
Other87.2%
Hosted and Cloud Based VoIP
 

Featured Reviews

MF
IT Manager at Piramal Critical Care, Inc.
Voicemail to email is convenient and in our region the multiple hubs provide redundancy
One area for improvement is the Web Portal. It's not a full-view screen, it's more like a minimized screen. You don't get the full view of your desktop. It's more like a five-inch by five-inch view. I think they said the software was designed that way. I don't know if there's going to be a newer version coming out later. With Google Chrome or if you open Excel you have the full view of your screen. You can see everything. With their portal, you have the web browser in the background in full view screen, but the actual portal itself is minimized, not a full screen That's the only issue that I asked them about it. Other than that, I think their calling features, settings, the voice to email, they're all okay.
reviewer1975647 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solutions Architect at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees
Saves our organization a lot of money, by eliminating the need for application servers
We use this solution as a platform for application and server integration This product has saved our organization a lot of money, by eliminating the need for application servers like WebLogix or web sphere. We like that this product is open-source, meaning that we spend a lot less on our…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The uptime is excellent. We're always up. We don't have issues. The stability of it is spotless. It's rock solid. Everything works great. There's no need to tinker with it."
"We like the administrative features RCN has available. It is important that we can balance call loads through programming options, and have full control of our messaging, schedules, etc."
"I really like the portal. It makes listening to your messages so much easier as well as changing your voice mail."
"As soon as we switched over to the RCN VoIP phone system, the clarity and quality of our calls improved and there has been no downtime."
"The sidecars on the main phones that we use, the ones that receive the calls, are really important. They help us to distribute calls to people, from reception. That's an important starting point for us."
"We've had 100 percent uptime so far. We haven't been down once, not even for a brief second, not even for a reboot. Nothing."
"We haven't had to face any disaster recovery... [But as] a smaller company, it's nice to be able to pay for somebody else to take care of that."
"A lot of users use the voice to email, that's a nice feature to have. Voicemail will come to me as a .wav file and, if I have a phone, I can just click on the .wav file and listen to it. Or I can play it on my computer. Whether you have an Android or an iPhone, you'll be able to play it."
"We like that this product is open-source, meaning that we spend a lot less on our servers etc."
 

Cons

"It should be easier to set up new phone additions to the network."
"If they could improve on their response times, making them even faster than they are right now, that would be great."
"One area for improvement is the Web Portal. It's not a full-view screen, it's more like a minimized screen. You don't get the full view of your desktop. It's more like a five-inch by five-inch view. I think they said the software was designed that way. I don't know if there's going to be a newer version coming out later."
"Wireless needs improvement... We're still looking for the quintessential IP phone, the one phone that will actually be SIP-enabled and use the WiFi and be able to carry through three [different] buildings."
"In our old system, you just dialed the extension directly, With this system, you have to put a "one" in front of it to trigger it. A lot of clients didn't know that and they'd keep trying to dial the old extension number and would get nowhere... It's been a little confusing."
"The way that you listen to your voicemail messages through the receiver so that you can't fast forward or rewind - I don't like that at all."
"If they had better ongoing-training options, for example, if they put something out on YouTube where you could just go and look for individual things that you need by looking at a video, that would be very helpful."
"I use the voicemail transcription feature but I'm not sure about the security of the voicemail system, as you can only use numbers for a password, and your direct-dial number is your username. That's kind of vulnerable to brute-force attacks. The passwords are limited to six digits, so I'd be a little concerned about security on that end..."
"We would like to see an expansion in the range of other technologies that are able to easily integrate into this solution, like plug-ins."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"For us, the monthly price was 38 percent lower. We were paying somewhere between $5,600 and $5,800 every month for voice and data. We got it down to about $4,000 with tax."
"We're okay with the pricing and licensing... It's based on the number of extensions."
"The pricing is fairly fair... We had a really good rep and she did a great job of working out a contract and a pricing solution that was acceptable..."
"Pricing is great. If you're not careful enough, you might just order too many. For the service, the price is right. When you design it, if you mess up and you realize you really need then more lines, the price is negligible."
"RCN, as part of the deal, leased us phones at a reasonable price and each line was extremely reasonable as well."
"The pricing is very fair. They have very good pricing."
"It's very affordable. We're very happy with the pricing."
"We looked at about five or six other companies but when RCN came in, they beat everybody hands-down, on both the features and on the dollars side. It prompted our people to say they hadn't seen numbers so low for the services you get."
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