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What Is VoIP?
VoIP, can also be known as Voice over IP, Internet phone, IP telephony, or broadband phone, softphone, and is one of the hottest technologies available and is taking the world by storm.
In simple terms, the VoIP phone allows you to send and receive telephone and fax calls through the Internet, instead of using your normal landline telephone or cell phone network.
VoIP solution providers such as Vonage and Lingo have skyrocketed in popularity and are giving the old telecom companies a real run for their money in terms of pricing and features.
VoIP phones, also called IP phones, may offer cool features not available with your dodgy standard phone, depending on which VoIP Provider you are with.
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Solutions Cost Less
In general, VoIP phone solutions cost less than the equivalent service from traditional sources.
This is largely due to the fact of traditional phone services either being monopolies or government entiities.
There are also some cost savings due to using a single network to carry voice and data transmissions.
This is especially true where users have existing under-utilized network capacity that they can use for the VoIP phone solution without any additional costs.
There are also some nifty benefits to having your calls transmitted
over the Internet. For example, some VoIP service providers allow
you to check your voicemail via your email, while others allow you
to attach voice messages to your emails.
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