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In the rapidly changing world that we live in today, we are always on the lookout for whatever does what we require of it but for a lesser price. Especially while the world is in financial crisis, everybody is trying to find ways to cut costs and reduce the expenses so that we can make ends meet. One such cost cutting method is VoIP technology. This is a technology that people who needs to communicate in a constant basis would really enjoy having.
VoIP or Voice over Internet Protocol is a method of making phone calls but not on your standard telephones but over the internet. There are no charges when doing so except if you include your monthly internet bill. But given that your internet bill is fixed every month, the cost of calling using VoIP is really very cheap compared to regular landlines especially if the person you are calling is in another country.
Traditionally, VoIP calls are only made PC to PC. In order to use VoIP, the both of you must have high speed internet access. Dial-up internet isn’t really advisable since the very slow speed of dial-up means very low quality that is often delayed. You would also need a speaker and a microphone, though a headset with an attached headset is much more comfortable.
Later on, as VoIP started to gain popularity and as more people started using it more, some companies developed devices that looked like phones but are plugged into your computer so that making phone calls feels a little bit more familiar to the people who are a little bit more hesitant or awkward with the technology. These phones later evolved into IP phones that just connect directly to your router and are fully configured so that you don’t have to bother setting it up or anything.
The progress of VoIP technology has been noticed not only by the general public, but also by large corporations who spends a little fortune every year on communication costs. There are already companies who are slowly deploying IP Phones to test if they can benefit from it. There are even some companies who have started shifting their standard PBX systems to IP based ones so that their calls can be routed via the internet reducing their maintenance phone bill charges when calling employees that are working at home or in the field. The use of IP phones have also reduced their charges on intra-office communication since the all their communication is routed via the internet and not the local telephone companies where toll charges could really rack up.
VoIP technology seems to be the ascendant of our legacy phone systems. In no time at all, a great majority of telephone users would have already transferred to internet telephony slowly leaving the standard telephone lines for the cheaper and more efficient VoIP. It is no longer a question of If, but just a matter of when. As VoIP becomes more popular, more providers would be competing to provide better service thereby slowly perfecting the technology of internet telephony.
