"Michael Nicholson Lord, Baron Framlingham", Knight Bachelor/Kt is a United Kingdom/British politician, and was Conservative Party (UK)/Conservative Member of Parliament for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich (UK Parliament constituency)/Central Suffolk and North Ipswich between 1997 and 2010. He was first elected for the predecessor seat of Central Suffolk (UK Parliament constituency)/Central Suffolk in 1983.

He was the Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means, one of the Deputy Speakers of the House of Commons, from 1997 to 2010.

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Our software developers need to be in touch with colleagues and communication is easier if you can see each other.

They're trying to straddle, and it always seems like a good compromise. But it can sometimes not work very well in practice. By limiting what services they offer and what they have on the ground in China, it's difficult to see how they won't be limited by that.

With any PABX, whether it is analogue, digital or IP telephony, they are expensive and you have to exploit the investment completely. You don't just rip them out and replace them because new technology arrives.

It helps from a management perspective if you can see your remote staff.