What exactly is VoIP?
Most people are familiar with NetMeeting and other programs that let you talk to others through Internet. VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) is similar. However, it also uses the phone – the interface that we are all familiar.
Instead of connecting the phone to the wall, you connect to a frame or VoIP company provides or buy on their own. This is the modem. You need high speed / broadband Internet for this. Your modem plugs into your cable or DSL modem and now a "conversation" can occur between the phone and the Internet.
For those who never have heard about the potential of VoIP, be prepared to radically change the way we think about its current distance call long plan. VoIP is very simple, method to make ordinary analog audio signals and convert digital signals that can be sent over the Internet.
So what? Well, for those of you who are already paying a monthly fee for an Internet connection, this means you can use the same connection to place telephone calls long distance. This process is done using a VoIP software is now available to make phone calls over the Internet calls, in essence, bypassing the telephone companies and their service charges.
Interestingly, VoIP is not something totally new. In fact, a number of providing companies have been for some time. However, only been the recent explosion of high speed, Internet access usage, that VoIP has received no attention. Now, major telephone companies are setting up their own VoIP calling plans in the U.S., another testament to the capability of technology.
Is difficult to install?
It is really easy. Assuming you have the company send you a modem or buy a kit at the store, simply connect the modem Power cable / DSL modem and your computer (for example, the output of your cable modem and now goes to the new box since your computer). It also provides a connector for your regular phone handsets.
Once you are on, the starter will install and configure itself.
What are the benefits?
There are many benefits in terms of the company to go, but here are some important advantages
1. Features such as Caller ID, Call Waiting, Call Waiting Caller ID, call forwarding, etc.
2. Voicemail.
3. Web access to voicemail – you can play your messages on your computer.
4. Auto-forward – if the phone is always down or not answered, it is self-routed to another number.
5. Email Alerts for new voicemail.
6. The online management of all features, settings, accounts, etc.
7. Speed Computer – simply highlight any number in your computer, press F6 and it sets up phone calls to the receiver.
8. Keep your regular phone.
There are some other features fresh available, such as the softphone, which allows you to use the computer as a phone without the modem. This means that you can take your laptop with you wherever you and your phone with the same phone number everywhere too. Alternatively, you can also do this without the softphone, but it means you have to take your VOIP modem with you.
Another useful feature of VoIP is a virtual number. You can get extra numbers around the same phone, but the numbers that are local to any area code you want. So if you live in Sydney and his family in Perth, you can get a phone number local, both in Sydney and Perth. Thus, to his family in Perth, you can call a local number and talk to you without incurring IDD charges and vice versa.
Bottom Line
Consumers need only pay for a month subscription (as low as less than U.S. $ 20) to VoIP providers and enjoy a wide range of functions, without countless taxes, charges, fees, etc. charged by telecommunications companies.
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