{"id":13099,"date":"2026-05-25T11:20:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T11:20:49","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-05-26T08:33:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T08:33:58","slug":"licensing-users","status":"publish","type":"lessons","link":"https:\/\/www.licensingschool.co.uk\/licenseverse\/teams-calling\/teams-phone\/licensing-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Licensing users"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Overview<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Teams Phone is licensed via a Teams Phone Standard license. Office 365 E5 and Microsoft 365 E5\/E7 licenses <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/licensing\/guidance\/subscription-suites#:~:text=%C3%BC-,Microsoft%20Teams%20Phone%20Standard,-%5B2%5D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">include<\/a> rights to Teams Phone Standard. Alternatively, you can purchase it as an Add-on User SL for any of the following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/licensing\/terms\/en-US\/productoffering\/AudioServices\/MCA#:~:text=Essentials%20(AAD%20Identity)-,Microsoft%20Teams%20Phone%20Standard,-Microsoft%20365%20Business\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">prerequisite<\/a> licenses:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Teams Essentials\/Enterprise\/EEA<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Microsoft 365 Business Basic\/Standard\/Premium<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Office 365 E1\/E3 or F3<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Microsoft 365 E3 or F1\/F3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although <a href=\"https:\/\/www.licensingschool.co.uk\/licenseverse\/plans-for-frontline-workers\/\">Frontline Worker<\/a> licenses are valid prerequisites for the regular Teams Phone Standard license, note that there\u2019s a dedicated, lower-cost <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/licensing\/terms\/en-US\/productoffering\/AudioServices\/all#:~:text=Microsoft%20Teams%20Phone%20Standard%20for%20Frontline%20Workers%20(User%20SL)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft Teams Phone Standard for Frontline Workers<\/a> license, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/licensing\/terms\/en-US\/productoffering\/AudioServices\/MCA#:~:text=E3\/A1\/A3-,Microsoft%20Teams%20Phone%20Standard%20for%20Frontline%20Workers,-Microsoft%20365%20F1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">prerequisites<\/a> of Office 365 F3 or Microsoft 365 F1\/F3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">History<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/office365\/servicedescriptions\/microsoft-365-business-voice-service-description\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft 365 Business Voice<\/a> was a bundle of Phone System, Audio Conferencing, and a Calling Plan targeted at SMB customers with up to 300 users. There was also a <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/office365\/servicedescriptions\/microsoft-365-business-voice-service-description#:~:text=Microsoft%20365%20Business%20Voice%20Without%20Calling%20Plan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">version<\/a> of Microsoft 365 Business Voice without a Calling Plan intended for markets where Calling Plans were not available. Both versions were <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/office365\/servicedescriptions\/microsoft-365-business-voice-service-description#:~:text=Business%20Voice%20retired%20June%202022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">retired<\/a> in <strong>June 2022<\/strong>, and customers now purchase the individual components as required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Microsoft planned a corresponding offer for larger businesses called <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210920211138\/https:\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoftteams\/business-voice\/business-enterprise-comparison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft 365 Enterprise Voice<\/a> which consisted of the same components: Phone System, Audio Conferencing, and a Calling Plan. It was due to be available on <strong>August 1, 2020<\/strong> but was actually never launched. If you\u2019re curious, you can see that it was added to the <strong>August 2020<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/licensing\/docs\/view\/Archived-Product-Terms-documents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Product Terms<\/a> and then deleted \u2013 apart from the entries in the Index where you\u2019ll see there was due to be a Plan 1 and a Plan 2 available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":13097,"menu_order":1,"template":"custom-single.php","lesson_category":[56],"class_list":["post-13099","lessons","type-lessons","status-publish","hentry","lesson_category-online-services","entry","no-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Licensing users - LicenseVerse<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.licensingschool.co.uk\/licenseverse\/teams-calling\/teams-phone\/licensing-users\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Licensing users - LicenseVerse\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Overview Teams Phone is licensed via a Teams Phone Standard license. 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