Connectivity Built for Legal and Accounting Practices

Whether your practice runs LEAP, Actionstep, Smokeball, Xero, MYOB, or CCH iFirm, the performance of that platform is only as good as the internet connection beneath it. Lag, dropouts, and slow synchronisation aren't software problems. They're connectivity problems.

Summit's fixed wireless network operates on infrastructure we own under ACMA Carrier Licence #388. Your practice's connection isn't a shared NBN link competing with every household on the street. It's a dedicated business-grade link on a network we built and maintain. The result is consistent, low-latency performance that keeps your cloud platforms responsive all day, every day.

For practices in areas where NBN has been unreliable or congested, Summit's fixed wireless offers a genuine alternative, one that doesn't depend on the same shared infrastructure that's been causing the problems.

A court filing deadline or ATO lodgement date doesn't move because your internet is down. Summit's 4G backup monitors your primary connection continuously and activates automatically when an outage is detected.

Your team continues working. The eLodgment submission goes through. The BAS lodgement makes the deadline. Your practice management system stays accessible. EFTPOS processes payments. The backup activates within seconds, with no manual intervention required and no scrambling for a mobile hotspot.

For a profession where missed deadlines carry real consequences (adverse cost orders, penalty notices, disciplinary complaints, professional indemnity claims), automatic 4G backup isn't an optional extra. It's insurance against the one scenario that keeps principals up at night.

Legal and accounting practices don't just consume data. They generate it. Court submissions, contract suites, tax return packages, due diligence materials, and financial reports all need to upload to cloud storage, filing systems, and client portals.

Summit's fixed wireless delivers symmetrical speed options where your upload matches your download. A 500-megabyte brief that takes 10 minutes to upload on a 50/20 NBN connection takes under 2 minutes on a 50/50 fixed wireless link. Your team spends less time waiting for uploads and more time on billable work.

During tax season, when your accounting practice is lodging at peak volume, this upload performance matters even more. Concurrent ATO lodgements from multiple staff don't bottleneck the connection.

Your firm's phone system is the first point of contact for many clients. It should project the same professionalism as your office, your correspondence, and your advice.

Summit's our cloud phone system hosted phone system gives your practice:

• IVR menus: "Press 1 for [partner name], press 2 for conveyancing, press 3 for family law", directing callers to the right person without putting your receptionist under siege
• Ring groups: incoming calls ring multiple staff simultaneously during busy periods
• After-hours routing: direct urgent calls to a mobile and non-urgent calls to voicemail
• Voicemail to email: missed calls arrive as audio files in your inbox for efficient follow-up
• Call recording: maintain records of client instructions and conversations for file management
• 1300 numbers: a single, professional number for your practice, regardless of how many locations you operate
• Hot desking: staff who work across multiple offices or desks can log into any phone with their extension

Because Summit provides both your internet and your phone system on our own network, voice traffic is prioritised. Your calls don't degrade when someone uploads a large document set.

Despite the digital transformation of both professions, fax hasn't disappeared. Courts require it for certain filings. Property settlements rely on it. The ATO accepts it. Inter-firm correspondence sometimes demands it.

Summit's fax to email service lets your practice send and receive faxes electronically. Incoming faxes arrive as PDF attachments in your nominated email. Outgoing faxes are sent from your computer. No physical machine. No dedicated phone line. No toner.

For law firms in particular, this is a quiet but essential service that most internet providers simply don't offer.

Your practice handles sensitive client information: financial records, legal privilege material, trust account data, personal information subject to the Privacy Act. The security of your connection matters.

Summit provides static IP addresses for secure VPN access to your practice management system, encrypted connections, and the accountability that comes from dealing with an ACMA-licensed carrier who controls the infrastructure your data traverses. Your data doesn't pass through a chain of resellers. It runs on a network we own.