Index › Products › NEC · October 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

NEC

12Judge labels

0First choices

12Negative labels

9 / 14Models named it

1Category

October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

1 label, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. NEC was named 1 time in Business phones, where RingCentral led with 29%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business71 of 72

under the label threshold

Mid-market60 of 75

under the label threshold

Enterprise77 of 78

under the label threshold

In business phones · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named NEC for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
Business phone systems	IT operations and endpoint	0%	60 of 75	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by RingCentral at 29%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for NEC yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated NEC across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	1	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative11 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative12 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

No positive label carried a quote.

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“systems to avoid include legacy on-premises PBX systems from brands like Avaya, NEC, Toshiba, Panasonic, and Mitel” Llama 4 Maverick · Business phones · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as NEC, over the 12 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and NEC was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Avaya11 of 120Not among the top eight

RingCentral8 of 124Not among the top eight

Mitel6 of 120Not among the top eight

Panasonic6 of 120Not among the top eight

Microsoft Teams Phone5 of 123Not among the top eight

Zoom Phone5 of 122Not among the top eight

Toshiba5 of 120Not among the top eight

Google Voice3 of 120Not among the top eight

Grasshopper3 of 120Not among the top eight

Nextiva3 of 120Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named NEC. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 11 of the 12 answers that named NEC and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

phonewire.com8

vonage.com8

crazyegg.com6

justcall.io6

onsip.com6

reddit.com5

verizon.com4

business.com3

linkedin.com3

phone.com3

No domain is on file for NEC, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

vonage.com/resources/articles/different-types-business-phone-systems8

crazyegg.com/blog/best-business-phone-systems6

phonewire.com/blog/7436

justcall.io/blog/best-business-phone-system.html4

onsip.com/voip-resources/smb-tips/business-telephone-service-provider-options-by-company-s3

phonewire.com/blog/286413

verizon.com/business/learn/business-phone-buyers-guide3

yay.com/blog/voip/telecoms-mistakes3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where NEC stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Searches for its name, Google: 40,500 a month (“nec”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 29,087 a month
Its own site: No site of its own on file, so no site figures

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 60 of 75 in business phones

Segment leader

29%

RingCentral

First choices: 0 across its categories
Named in: 12 answers
Its own site cited: No site on file to match

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

Follow NEC

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for NEC by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where NEC is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name NEC, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.