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An increasing number of home users and small bus5A0inesses are using VoIP. But is it right for your business? What can be your gains? Is it better than the traditional phone service and if it is, exactly how? You need to consider these things before deciding whether you need VoIP or not.

But before you make a decision you must know that many businesses have already preferred VoIP over the traditional system and many others are in the process of shifting. Such businesses have opted for the additional services and the money saving deals that a VoIP service offers. Also, since VoIP is just coming in, the technology and the offers can only improve.

If you are considering VoIP for your business you must know that there are two ways in which it can be done.

It is through LAN that IP telephony works and this methodology makes it easy and cheap to communicate within an organization. Voice transmissions between people connected within a network is also possible through this technology.

The other option is the use of WAN or a Wide Area Network. The Internet can be used to transmit to anywhere in the world. Now WAN can be of two types a public WAN and a private WAN. A private network naturally provides more security.

How to select VoIP for Business

The biggest advantage in using VoIP is in cost saving. When you are making a call overseas, the costs can be really astronomical and if you have to keep making them for your business, then 576you had it. However if you are using VoIP, the cost of calls can be reduced drastically since there are no taxes for Internet calls. IP based voice technology can thus make toll calls history and thereby reduce expenditures. Add-on, moves and changes to the system make it more attractive.

Not only does VoIP allow all functionalities of the traditional service but since it is a standard, open protocol, companies are able to create their own audio or purchase applications from software developers.

Not only is VoIP cheap to start with, but with increasing business the phone system can also be expanded and this too will cost less. VoIP is dynamic and can adjust to changes quickly. Since VoIP is easy and convenient, employees can be trained to use the system and they can start using the various features almost immediately.

However if your Internet connection is not stable, that is it tends to drop off at times, then your VoIP is also likely to be affected. So it is important to select a company for stable connectivity as well for VoIP telephony.

# posted by voip71722 @ 11:47 PM 0 comments

Free IP telephone services are available to make national and international phone calls by using a computer and a mouse. To get these free services, you need a computer with an Internet connection u5A8sing WiFi, broadband or a dial-up network supported by T-I, DSL, Fiber, Wireless, ATM, Cable or Frame Relay. You also need a home to share the Internet connection with multiple computers, microphones and headsets (for audio connectivity) and software to turn the computer into a telephone.

One has to initially, activate a network account to get a telephone number through which calls can be made. Calls can be made to any telephone, mobile or landline. Free IP telephony services are offered for PC-to-PC phone calls. By paying a nominal registration fee, one can use the same services to call out on mobile or landline telephone.

Free IP Telephony services include voice mail, caller ID, Internet billing, video phone, instant messaging, call forwarding, call waiting, fax to email connections, call to PSTN numbers, 3-way calling or teleconferencing and call blasting. Free service providers offer instruments such as adapters; stand alone videophones at discounted prices when a customer registers on their websites.

Most of the sites use VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) and high-speed Internet connections. The other services available are SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) communication systems that use the existing PBX connections in an organization to contact co-workers in remote locations. SIP provides mobility and better interconnection services within organizations.

Internet telephony software essentiall450y provides free telephone calls, however does not offer the same quality of telephone services as PSTN network has.

# posted by voip71722 @ 6:26 PM 0 comments

Everybody ta498lks about VOIP but except for standalone-phones and software solutions there is not much available. Especially on the mobile phone market it seems to take a long time to get VOIP on your phone, smartphone or PDA. This is because phone creators are working with the major carriers who do not want to see cheap VOIP calls with normal handsets. The profit margin would be too low. There are however some other solutions to get the power of VOIP on your phone. Web-activated calls are phone calls initiated over the internet and routed over the internet between two (or more) normal phones. That means you do not need any special equipment except a phone and a web-browser with internet connection to initiate a call.

Basically you need to fill in your number and the number you want to call in a web interface and hit the call button. A computer will initiate a call between the two phones. It will first call your phone on which you get a computer voice asking you to wait for a moment until it connects to the second phone. After that you have a line just like it would be doing a regular phone call. Some providers, in particular Jajah.com provide free calls between its53F users. That means everybody who has registered his number with a free Jajah account, can call any other Jajah user for free (excluding some very remote countries and some mobile phone networks). For example a cellphone user in the US could call a cellphone user in China completely for free.

Until now there was one problem, especially for BlackBerry users. You were in need of a desktop computer with a browser to enter the phone numbers and activate the call. But now there is a free utility program for the BlackBerry called "BBCalls" which plugs into the BlackBerry address book and allows you to call any contact via the Jajah service by simply clicking on it. Internally the program loads the website and activates the call. You will be in need of a data connection, but this should be available for nearly every BlackBerry users anyway.

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