Voice and Connectivity, Sorted.
Without the Carrier Headache.
Carrier shopping, contracts, turn-ups, and ongoing changes — handled by people who understand both the technology and the business behind it.
3 Ways
to engage with NTS
20+
carriers in our catalog
Vendor-Neutral
no quota with any single carrier
Why This Is Usually a Headache
The Carrier Market Is Built to Confuse You.
Phone and internet are two of the most painful categories in business technology. Reps work on quota. Pricing is opaque and changes between the proposal and the contract. Promotional rates roll off at month 13. The provider who quoted you the cheapest fiber may not actually serve your address. And once something is wrong, the right person is hard to reach.
We have spent years untangling this for the businesses we work with. The page below describes the products we sell and support directly, the carriers we quote, and the path we take when the right fit is outside our direct catalog.
Business Voice
Phone Systems We Deploy and Support.
Three voice platforms cover most situations. Below: what each is best for and how we engage on it.
Direct · We Sell & Support
Microsoft Teams Voice
Calls placed and received inside the Teams app, with full PSTN connectivity. The right fit for businesses already standardized on Microsoft 365.
Best for: teams that live in Teams. One vendor for collaboration and voice, no separate desk phones unless you want them.
Direct · We Sell & Support
Telnyx SIP & Numbers
Carrier-grade SIP trunks and direct inward dial (DID) numbers. We use Telnyx ourselves and provision it for clients who need portable numbers, SIP behind a PBX, SMS, or international DIDs.
Best for: SIP behind an existing phone system, number portability, regulatory flexibility, or voice that has to integrate with custom workflows.
Via Partners We Work With
3CX
A full-featured PBX with mobile and desktop softphones, queues, IVR, and reporting — cloud-hosted or on-prem. We coordinate with 3CX specialist partners who deploy and tune it.
Best for: larger call volumes, contact-center workflows, or businesses that want a self-contained phone system separate from Microsoft 365.
Business Internet
Carriers We Quote. Carriers We Find.
A short list of carriers we quote directly through our master-agent relationships, plus a path for everything outside that catalog.
Quote & Deliver
Direct Carrier Quotes
For the carriers below, we can request quotes through our master-agent relationships, walk you through the options, and place the order. Pricing matches what you would get going to the carrier directly — often with cleaner contract terms.
- Verizon
- AT&T
- Spectrum
- Comcast Business
- T-Mobile Business
- Lumen
- Cox Business
- Frontier
- Windstream
- Granite
- Brightspeed
- and more
Fiber, cable, DSL, fixed wireless, dedicated internet, MPLS, SD-WAN, and mobile failover all available depending on the carrier and your address.
Consult & Connect
Anything Outside the Catalog
Some of the best options for a particular building are not on a national carrier's map. Regional fiber providers, local wireless ISPs, dark-fiber operators, satellite, and specialty bonded services all have their place. When the best fit is outside our direct catalog, we evaluate the situation and connect you to the right partner.
You get a recommendation that reflects what is actually available at your address — not whatever the carrier rep happens to be quota'd on this quarter.
How It Works
Three Ways to Use NTS for Voice and Internet.
Pick the path that fits the situation. Most clients use a mix.
Path One
Quote & Deliver
For Teams Voice, Telnyx, and the carriers listed above. We pull a quote, walk you through the options, place the order, and stay involved through turn-up. NTS becomes the partner on record.
Path Two
Consult & Connect
When the best fit is outside our direct catalog — regional fiber, niche providers, specialized PBX — we evaluate the situation, recommend a path, and connect you to the right partner. Light consulting engagement.
Path Three
Advisory Call
A thirty-minute call to think through options before you talk to any carriers. Sometimes you just want a second set of eyes on what you have been quoted. No charge.
Why Use NTS for This
A Carrier Broker With a Technology Brain.
Most carrier brokers sell carriers. NTS supports the technology that runs on them — networks, firewalls, phone systems, Microsoft 365, SIP integrations. That changes how we recommend things.
We are not trying to win one transaction. We are trying to fit voice and connectivity into the rest of your environment, and stay around to support both.
- Vendor-neutral. No single-carrier quota. We are paid roughly the same regardless of which carrier wins.
- Same pricing as direct. Master-agent access means the quote matches what you would get going to the carrier yourself.
- One partner across the stack. Same team supports the install, the integration, and the bill — not three different vendors.
- We stay around. Most clients keep us through renewals, so the next contract conversation is already in motion before the auto-renew hits.
Common Questions
What Clients Usually Ask First.
Start With a Conversation
Tell us what you have.
We'll tell you what makes sense.
Send us your current carrier bills, the building address, and a sentence about what is not working. We will take it from there.
Northern Technology Services · 231 State St. Suite 4, Petoskey, MI 49770 · Serving Michigan since 2015
