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What is VoIP?
Voice over Internet Protocol, also called VoIP, or Internet telephony, is the routing of voice conversations over the Internet or through any other IP-based network. Internet VoIP service rings and has a dial tone just like any other telephone and for some it’s eliminating plain old telephone service (POTS) entirely.
Unlike traditional analog telephone signals, which travel through a PSTN (public switched telephone network), VoIP digitizes the speaker's voice and sends it through either cable or DSL broadband Internet connections. You can talk PC to PC ,usually free, or PC to PSTN and vice versa, for a much smaller charge than you're paying now. If you download one of the free ones like Skype, Gizmo or SightSpeed or suscribe to one of the montkly VoIP sevices an adapter can connect your regular telephone to your Internet connection.
VoIP lets you place a free call, or at least much cheaper than a conventional call, over the internet bypassing telephone companies. This technology is already changing the way the world’s telecom companies do business as well as changing the way we work and communicate. Even AT&T is climbing aboard the VoIP bandwagon.
More and more people are signing on to VoIP services via internet high speed DSL / Cable connections because the call quality of VoIP has been vastly improved.
However, in relation to the typical telephone service we grew up with and take for granted, VoIP is much more challenging to setup. But this is changing as more major companies come online and develop easier-to-implement systems.
VoIP is, and will continue, to make serious inroads into the marketplace as companies begin to provide services that are cheap, easy to use and easy to setup.