Before you decide to go wireless or not, there are many points to consider. You may be asking yourself if wireless is for you. Well, today, many people are asking themselves the same question. If you watch the headline news, you are bound to see stories involving mergers, federal regulations, and new tax rules. (more…)
VoIP allows people to make phone calls through their computers by translating telecommunications into data packets for transmission over the Internet. This technology makes phone calls, faxes, and other communications far more efficient and cost-effective than traditional analog, circuit-switched technology. (more…)
When you call a colleague’s office from yours using a traditional circuit-switched phone, the call originates from the hardware on your desk, travels along one of a limited number of paths on dedicated telephone networks, and arrives at a specific location-the phone on her desk. VoIP calls, by contrast, are just bits of data on the global Internet. (more…)
Today’s telecommunications landscape bears little resemblance to that of two decades ago. Instead of a single, slow-moving operator per country, there are now dozens, if not hundreds, of players offering myriad services in each market. (more…)
A Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) gateway bridges the circuit-switched telephone network to the packet-switched data network. Such a gateway permits calls coming from an ordinary telephone to be carried over an IP network to a compatible computer client terminal or bridged back to another ordinary telephone. (more…)
As a technology, VoIP is a clever “reinvention of the wheel”. Yet, it is a technology that has the potential to redefine the way the world communicates. VoIP is a method of taking analog audio signals, the ones currently used in phones, and turning them into digital data to be transmitted over the internet. (more…)
True, the telephone is 100 years old. But is that any reason to throw it away for newfangled voice over Internet protocol phone service? (more…)
Today, all major phone service providers are incorporating voice-over-Internet-protocol technology into their networks. (more…)
Internet phone service or voice over Internet protocol is likely to rise to prominence in the United States because of its lower cost and major changes in the telecom universe. (more…)