Source note · UC licensing models compared
A Teams common area phone account needs no separate Phone System licence beyond the Shared Space licence, and a Calling Plan is added only when Microsoft is the PSTN provider rather than Direct Routing or Operator Connect.
Checked 2026-09-25
- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Product
- Teams Phone
- Subsystem
- common-area-phones
- Deployment
- multi-tenant
- Region
- not restricted
- Release range
- current as of 2026-09-25
- Checked
- 2026-09-25
Sources
- Set up the common area phones for Microsoft Teams — Microsoft · tier 2 current vendor documentation · section 'Step 2 - Create a new common area phone resource account and assign licenses', Note under 'Using the Microsoft 365 admin center'
Cite this note
APA
WarmTransfer. (2026, September 25). UC licensing models compared: source note uc-licensing-models-teams-cap-calling-plan-optional. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/uc-licensing-models-teams-cap-calling-plan-optional
BibTeX
@misc{warmtransfer-claim-uc-licensing-models-teams-cap-calling-plan-optional,
title = {UC licensing models compared: source note uc-licensing-models-teams-cap-calling-plan-optional},
author = {{WarmTransfer}},
year = {2026},
url = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/uc-licensing-models-teams-cap-calling-plan-optional},
note = {Source note uc-licensing-models-teams-cap-calling-plan-optional, checked 2026-09-25}
}