| How VOIP Can Help You to Save Money in Your | | | | IP service providers don't rely on telephone lines |
| Business | | | | to make their connections and transmit their calls. |
| Voice Over IP telecommunications, more | | | | Instead, a broadband internet connection such as |
| commonly referred to as VOIP, allows users to | | | | a cable, satellite, or DSL connection is used as the |
| make and receive telephone calls over a | | | | medium of transferring the call digitally over the |
| broadband internet connection. Already there are | | | | internet. The recipient of the call doesn't have to |
| several well-known VOIP service providers, and | | | | have a VOIP connection, of course; calls placed in |
| individuals from all over the world subscribe to | | | | this manner can reach any telephone or cell phone |
| their services because of reduced costs and | | | | that a normal telephone could. Since the call is |
| added convenience. VOIP services can help | | | | being placed over the internet and sent, however, |
| businesses just as much as they can individuals, | | | | it is simply routed to telephone exchange that is |
| though many business owners never even stop | | | | closest to the recipient where the call is |
| to consider whether VOIP may be a worthwhile | | | | completed normally. This can make calls to |
| investment for their company. If used properly, | | | | locations around the world possible for a standard |
| these services may be able to save business | | | | rate instead of premiums, and allows service |
| owners money while providing features that they | | | | providers to offer flat-rate monthly fees |
| might otherwise never have considered. | | | | regardless of the local or long-distance service |
| How VOIP Works | | | | that is actually used. |
| Unlike traditional telephone companies, Voice Over | | | | |