| New businesses can now let their customers | | | | Protocol Data Packets. These packets are then |
| contact them for free or inexpensively with the | | | | routed over the Internet. This makes it a lot |
| use of Voice over IP telephony, without having to | | | | cheaper for Voice over IP service providers to |
| lease the ever more expensive toll free numbers | | | | carry your calls. Using this method Voice over IP |
| offered by many telecoms companies around the | | | | service providers only have to pay a small |
| world. With Voice over IP telephony, local | | | | termination fee at the point where they drop |
| numbers can be setup in scores of towns and | | | | your call off. This in turn make Voice over IP |
| cities across a country at relatively low costs. | | | | extremely cost effective for those companies |
| These can then connect to a central Voice over | | | | who cannot afford the high costs associated with |
| IP service provider, which will allow free or low | | | | those of toll free numbers. It would then become |
| rate calls to you from your customers. | | | | possible for example to rent phone numbers in |
| Internet telephony or Voice over IP as it is more | | | | major cities across a country at cheap rates, and |
| commonly known has been hailed as the next big | | | | people in these cities would then be able to talk to |
| thing in the telecommunications world for quite | | | | you for just the cost of a local call. |
| some time. In the past it has been plagued with | | | | In the past few years Voice over IP has matured |
| poor sound and connection quality, as well as | | | | and is fast becoming the way to make cheap |
| complex and frustrating installations. | | | | rate calls both nationally and internationally. In fact |
| With huge advances in Voice over IP technology | | | | most major telecoms companies around the |
| in the last few years, you no longer have to sit at | | | | world, are now gearing up to charge us for the |
| your computer in order to make a phone call | | | | amount of data sent or received, as opposed to |
| over the Internet using Voice over IP. It is now | | | | the length of call time. Many businesses are taking |
| possible to use an ordinary phone, connected to a | | | | early advantage of the huge cost savings for |
| Voice over IP adaptor (gateway). Some | | | | them and their customers, through the |
| specialised Voice over IP phones (IP phones) have | | | | implementation of Voice over IP telephony. |
| this technology built into their circuitry, effectively | | | | Thanks for reading my article. Please feel free to |
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| Voice over IP splits your voice into Internet | | | | |