EXPOSED: Microsoft’s Teams Phone System is a BILLION-RAND TRAP for South African businesses, and one local firm just DECLARED WAR. United Telecoms has launched a shocking new system that UNLOCKS the full power of Microsoft Teams for calls WITHOUT paying Microsoft’s exorbitant fees—revealing what experts are calling a “DELIBERATE corporate shakedown” of the 320 million daily users trapped in the ecosystem.
The numbers are a DAMNING indictment. While Teams boasts 320 million daily users globally, a paltry 17 million use its phone features. WHY? Because Microsoft slaps on crushing per-user license costs that bleed companies dry. “It’s a classic vendor lock-in,” one insider raged. “They get you on the subscription, then hold your telephony HOSTAGE.”
United Telecoms’ “United Voice Cloud” system is the REVOLT. It plugs directly into Teams, delivering full PBX calling, SMS, and recording FOR A FRACTION of the cost, using a company’s existing M365 subscription. This isn’t just an upgrade—it’s a SYSTEMIC BYPASS of Microsoft’s profit machine, laying bare a pricing model critics label as PREDATORY and anti-competitive.
The implications are MONUMENTAL. This move could collapse the lucrative “add-on” revenue stream for tech giants, proving that essential business tools are being GATED behind artificial paywalls. It forces a terrifying question: How many other “essential features” are we being OVERCHARGED for in the software we already own?
The corporate world you know is built on a lie of unnecessary costs. This is the first crack in the foundation.


