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Business Communications for Taxi & Private Hire

A taxi firm's phone number is the business — decades of local memory dialling one number, expecting an instant answer at 2am on a Saturday. Covering taxi companies, private hire operators, chauffeur companies and executive travel.

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Multi-site operations: a site
Built for the sectorPhones, broadband, WiFi and AI specified for the way the sector works, installed and supported by one UK team.
What happens on a call

From the first ring to the recording.

The same cloud phone system routes every call the way your business works, then keeps a record of it.

A customer callsYour existing number, ported acrossLandline, mobile or a tracked campaign number
Auto attendant“Press 1 for sales, 2 for support”Opening hours, holidays and overflow rules
Ring group or queueRings the right people in the right orderPosition announcements and music on hold
Answered anywhereDesk phone: Yealink or Grandstream, pre-provisionedTelexico Mobile App: your extension on your mobileTelexico Web UC: the phone in a browser tab
Nothing lostUnanswered calls go to voicemail-to-emailEvery call recorded and searchable, with a CRM screen-pop

Peak demand is the product

Taxi operations invert normal business hours: the busiest moments are Friday and Saturday night, station runs at dawn, and the school-run window — and every unanswered ring is a fare taken by an app or a rival. The operator setup: high-capacity lines that never return engaged, calls queued with sensible announcements, overflow between operators, and — the modern edge — AI answering that takes the booking (pickup, destination, time, name) during surges no staffing level can cover, feeding it to dispatch. Number presentation matters commercially: your famous local number stays, ports cleanly, and rings wherever your operation actually sits tonight. Driver communications ride alongside: PTT-style groups or a drivers' line, and multi-network SIMs so the fleet holds signal across the whole patch.

The complete stack for taxi firms

ServiceWhat it does for you
Business broadbandReliable connectivity for your systems and payments, with 4G failover so a line fault never stops you trading.
Phone systemsHigh-capacity, never-engaged lines behind your famous local number, queued and overflowing to wherever your operators are tonight.
AI receptionistSurge answering that takes complete bookings — pickup, destination, time — straight into dispatch when Saturday night exceeds any staffing plan.
Business WiFiFast coverage everywhere it's needed, with guest, staff and payment networks kept safely separate.
CCTVHD coverage of the places that matter, viewable from your phone, professionally installed.
Business mobilesFleet SIMs on multi-network coverage, so drivers and dispatch stay connected across every corner of the patch.

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Telexico, in use

Every seat, fully loaded.

  • Call recording, the Telexico Mobile App and Telexico Web UC included
  • Handsets pre-provisioned and shipped ready to plug in
  • Moves, adds and changes from the portal, no engineer visit
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Telexico Web UC: keypad, directory and call notes in the browser

Every seat, fully loaded.

Frequently asked questions

Can we keep our well-known local number?

Yes — it ports cleanly and becomes more powerful: ringing your office, home operators or overflow in whatever order tonight's shift requires.

Can the AI take a real booking?

Yes — pickup, destination, time and name captured to your rules and passed to dispatch, handling the surge calls no human roster can cover on a Saturday night.

What happens when every line is busy?

There is no 'every line busy' — cloud capacity queues callers instead of turning them away, and queue overflow to AI answering means the fare gets booked with you rather than an app.

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