Why Microsoft Teams Phone
Microsoft Teams Phone turns every Teams-enabled device — laptop, desktop, mobile phone, or dedicated Teams handset — into a full-featured business phone. Your staff can make and receive calls using your business phone numbers from anywhere, on any device, with the same professional experience whether they're at their desk, working from home, or on the road.
Key capabilities include:
Inbound and outbound calling using your existing business phone numbers, ported from your current provider or provisioned new through a Microsoft-certified carrier.
Auto attendants — professional automated greetings and menu systems that route callers to the right person or department without a receptionist.
Call queues — distributing incoming calls across teams (such as sales or support) with hold music, overflow routing, and wait-time announcements.
Voicemail with transcription — missed calls go to voicemail, which is automatically transcribed and delivered to the user's email and Teams, so they can read the message without listening to it.
Call transfer, hold, and park — all the traditional phone features your team expects, built natively into Teams.
Call recording and compliance — recording calls for training, quality assurance, or regulatory compliance, with recordings stored securely in Microsoft 365.
Presence and availability integration — callers and colleagues can see whether someone is available, in a meeting, or offline, reducing wasted calls and improving responsiveness.