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What is VOIP?
Voice over Internet Protocol, is a technology that allows you to make voice calls using a broadband Internet connection instead of a regular (or analog) phone line. Some VoIP services may only allow you to call other people using the same service, but others may allow you to call anyone who has a telephone number - including local, long distance, mobile, and international numbers. Also, while some VoIP services only work over your computer or a special VoIP phone, other services allow you to use a traditional phone connected to a VoIP adapter. Even though ome VoIP services does not work during power outages. The service provider may not offer backup power at times.

Why do we use VOIP?
1) Some VoIP providers offer their services for free, normally only for calls to other subscribers to the service.

2) Some VoIP services offer features and services that are not available with a traditional phone, or are available but only for an additional fee. You may also be able to avoid paying for both a broadband connection and a [|traditional telephone line].

3) If you are calling someone who has a regular [|analog] phone, that person does not need any special equipment to talk to you.

4) Some VoIP services may allow you to speak with more than one person at a time.

5) VoIP allows users to travel anywhere in the world and still make and receive phone calls.

6) VoIP can facilitate tasks that may be more difficult to achieve using traditional networks.

7) VoIP phones can integrate with other services available over the Internet, including video conversation, message or data file exchange in parallel with the conversation, audio conferencing, managing address books and passing information about whether others (e.g. friends or colleagues) are available online to interested parties.

8) Incoming phone calls can be automatically routed to your VoIP phone, regardless of where you are connected to the network. Take your VoIP phone with you on on a trip,and wherever you connect to the Internet, you can receive incoming calls.

9) Because VoIP telecommunication isn't regulated the way traditional phone line telecommunication is, VoIP providers like [|Vonage] can offer drastically lower calling rates.

10) A host of brand new, VoIP-enabled cell phones will soon be ready for action.

Cost savings, uber-slick telephony features, network convergence--VoIP is the technology at the root of all these trends, and you should expect to see a lot more news about VoIP in the coming months and years. If you haven't used Voice over IP products yet, try out a broadband phone service like [|Broadvox] Direct or [|Vonage], and download a copy of [|Skype] or the [|Gizmo Project], two excellent VoIP PC calling applications.

Ten Facts relating to Voice Over Internet Protocol:
1.There are many big name vendors such as Microsoft, Cisco and Erricson who are supporting and implementing SIP(Session Initiation protocol) as their VoIP protocol. In tems of service providers evidences shows that there is a huge number of companies (400 alone in the US) that are offering VoIP as an alternative to the traditional telephony service.

2.//"Market research firm The Yankee Group predicts that 17.5 million US Residents will rely on VoIP by the end of 2008"-//over 1 million US residents have actually dropped their traditional phone line for one that uses voice over Internet Protocol.

3. Between 1998 and 2003, VoIP's part of international traffic had risen from 0.2 percent to 13 percent of telephone traffic worldwide thus it shows an increase of the use of VoIP's.

4.Other than residential or home use large numbers of companies and universities are starting to use VoIP. Aerospace giant Boeing, which has about 157,000 employees and offices in 70 countries announced the fact that they would use VoIP to handle all phone calls within the company and now over 8% of British call centre companies use VoIP exclusively. An addition is that it Is media independent. Promotes economic development through access to new markets.

5. In order to gain a voip service, one must have a proper broadband otherwise it will be useless to suscribe for one.

6. VoIP users dont pay tax although one might have their bills carry a fee to cover the 3 percent federal excise tax as well as the universal service fund.

7. Disadvantage regarding VoIP is that one will not be able to make calls if there is a power failure or the broadband internet service is not connected and having trouble with it.There is no point in subscribing a VoIP service if there is no high-speed internet connection.

8. The advantages using VoIP is that it is a low, flat montly price including your broadband internet service. In India it is legal to use VoIP. however it is illegal to have VoIP gateways inside India which means people who have PCs can use it to make a VoIP call to any number. But if the remote side is a normal phone the gateway that converts VoIP call to POTS call should not be inside India.

9. Some schools and universities students have the opportunity to use Internet Protocol (IP). It is stated that The University of Notre Dame has signed a multimillion-dollar contract for a hosted voice-over-IP system to serve its 16,000 students, faculty and staff. The University of California Santa Barbara now uses voice over IP technology on their campus along with many other universities throughout America.

10. VoIP phones can integrate with other services available over the Internet, including video conversation, message or data file exchange in parallel with the conversation, audio conferencing, managing address books and passing information about whether others (e.g. friends or colleagues) are available online to interested parties.

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