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£34.34 inc. VAT
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For £28.62 ex‑VAT, this is the sort of “small but important” add-on that can save you a lot of faff *if* you’re wiring the right HP Poly voice setup. Electronic hookswitch hardware is usually there to make call control behave properly with the rest of the system (phones/softclients/gateways), so when it’s compatible, it’s genuinely good value—because the alternative is troubleshooting odd call answering/routing behaviour that can eat far more time than this costs.
That said, I wouldn’t buy it as a random accessory. These things are very much “model/system specific,” and the wrong hookswitch (or the wrong interface) can still leave you with call control issues—just slightly different ones. So who should buy? IT teams and resellers standardising HP Poly deployments, where the phone/system mix is already confirmed, or anyone replacing a failed/removed part in an existing installation. Who shouldn’t? If you’re still unsure what exact handset/switching hardware you need, pause—get compatibility confirmed first, because the price looks tempting until you realise you bought the wrong piece of the puzzle.

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