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5 Reasons Your Business Should Switch to VoIP
Today, many businesses are choosing to unplug and go with VoIP
technology. There are many advantages for using VoIP including
cost effectiveness, greater productivity, and the incorporation
of data, audio, and video all intertwined in one...
Traveling with VoIP
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By this, we mean that with VoIP you can...
VoIP and local phone service
With VoIP technology entering the mainstream, it brings the
possibilities or huge profits for the companies that provide the
service. The current promise of cost savings is driving more and
more residential and business users to investigate...
VOIP Not Just For Residential Use
VOIP, Not Only for Residential Use
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is short for Voice Over Internet Protocol. VOIP is a fantastic
technology that has been growing for a few years but recently
has exploded in...
VoIP Phone Hype.....Phooey
I hold no ill will towards marketing, but do become offended when someone feels I should lose my critical analysis skills and buy into marketing hype. For example - revolutionary new technology allowing 1 digit calling? Easy connect to VoIP via...
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How your business can save money with VoIP
Many of you have probably already heard about VoIP, or voice
over IP. This is a technology that allows you to make
telephone calls using the internet. From a consumer
standpoint VoIP offers significant savings in monthly phone
bills and long distance charges.
However, what you are probably only starting to hear about
is the significant cost savings that VoIP brings to
business's. A recent Business Week article titled "The Power
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_25/b3938601
of Us" .htm describes the story of a small 35 employee
software firm in Palo Alto, Calif. that uses Skype to make
90% of their 2k$ per month long distance phone bill vanish.
This is only one of many similar stories.
So how do you get started? Well, you can either start by
checking out the more than 1100 VoIP providers that exists
today, doing a careful analysis of all the pros and cons, or
you can simply go to http://www.skype.com/ and download
Skype.
Skype is essentially the "plug a headset or phone into my
computer and it costs me nothing to make telephone calls"
option. Skype is free, Skype is easy to use and Skype works.
It is completely painless.
Perhaps, if you are like me, you will start using Skype
because you want to stop paying for long distance at home.
After a while you realize that this would be great at the
office. Since you are probably sitting at the computer
anyhow, you will find that it is more convenient to simply
talk to a colleague on Skype rather that picking up the
phone and dialing a number. And that Skype conversation is
completely free regardless of where that person is located..
absolutely no cost what so ever!
After you get used to paying nothing for long distance, you
will begin discovering some of Skype's other options. As of
June, 2005 Skype has the following options:
1) Conference calling, "caller-ID", Call waiting and
numerous other similar features.
3) Instant messaging, file sharing and other instant
messaging type features.
2) Numerous add-ons or plug-ins, many of them are free, give
you additional features such as a Skype Answering machine,
Microsoft Outlook integration, even a Video for Skype
option. All Skype add-ons can be found at
http://www.summitcircle.com/ the largest Skype resource site
on the web.
If you decide that you find Skype convenient you may
eventually want to consider some of Skype's premium
services:
1) Skype Voicemail at ~19$ a year (that is about ~1.50$ per
month,
2) Calling "external phone numbers", About 2 cents a minute
for almost anywhere on the planet! (Skype to Skype calls are
always free)
3) An incoming phone number with almost any area code in the
US, England, much of Europe and even in China for around
~39$ a year (that is ~3.50$ per month and they throw in
voicemail)
Once you get going with Skype you will find that it starts
to grow on you. I haven't replaced my regular phone with
Skype but it has become my second phone line and I use it
frequently. If you are interested in Skype, then download
Skype for free at http://www.skype.com/
Once you have Skype, you can find a Skype phone, add-on or
community at http://www.summitcircle.com There you will
find all the Skype add-ons (or plug-ins) that you want
along with a growing list of Skype business services.
About the Author
Louis Philip is the owner of http://www.summitcircle.com/
where he writes about the world of Skype and maintains the
largest Skype resource site on the web. He can be reached by
e-mail: louisphilip@summitcircle.com
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| Voice over IP - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| Encyclopedia article with background information, technical details, and the advantages and disadvantages of VoIP. |
| en.wikipedia.org |
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| Voice-Over-Internet Protocol |
| An overview of VoIP from the Federal Communications Commission. With news, FAQs, factsheets, and findings. |
| www.fcc.gov |
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| voip-info.org - voip-info.org |
| A wiki that covers VoIP software, hardware, service providers, reviews, configurations, and standards. |
| www.voip-info.org |
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| Howstuffworks "How VoIP Works" |
| Voice over Internet Protocol lets you make free long-distance phone calls using your computer. It’s essentially a phone network that uses the Internet ... |
| www.howstuffworks.com |
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| VOIP.ORG.UK - The UK resource for IP telephony |
| UK resource with the emphasis on small businesses and home users. Includes news, reviews, and forums. |
| www.voip.org.uk |
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| Packet8: VoIP Internet Phone Service Provider and Voice Over IP ... |
| Packet8 offers VoIP Internet Phone Service and Voice Over IP Telephony phone systems. |
| www.packet8.net |
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| Voip |
| 1-800-TRY-VOIP; Voip.com: do more, pay less. Use a broadband connection and your voip.com adapter to make and receive calls using a regular phone. |
| www.voip.com |
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| Vonage - Leading the Internet Phone Revolution |
| Use your high-speed Internet connection to make all of your phone calls with Vonage digital phone service. Plans start at $14.99 per month. |
| www.vonage.com |
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| VoipBuster - The Free* Calls Company |
| Free* phone calls with the VoipBuster. Call your online friends for free as well as a special selection of popular international destinations. |
| www.voipbuster.com |
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| The VoIP Weblog |
| OK, VoIP customers, the $24.99 a month party is just about over. ... The issue definitely kept me from switching to a VoIP service for over a year because I ... |
| voip.weblogsinc.com |
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| IVR Platforms / IVR Hosting / IVR Development |
| Get to market quickly with our A to Z VoIP platforms and services >> ... Our IVR and VOIP hosting, turnkey platforms, and developer services - powered by ... |
| www.voxeo.com |
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| VoIP |
| Connecting a business to a VoIP network doesn’t require a big, expensive integration overhaul. Quintum’s VoIP access solutions are designed with “integrated ... |
| www.tmcnet.com |
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| VoIP - Internet Telephony |
| voip, Internet Telephony Magazine. ... Internet Telephony is the leading VoIP magazine in the world covering all topics VoIP. ... |
| www.tmcnet.com |
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| Convergence & VoIP - Network World |
| The Convergence & VoIP research center is your source for the latest convergence and VoIP news, analysis and research links from Network World. |
| www.networkworld.com |
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| VoIP News - Enterprise, Carrier, Small Business VoIP Information |
| VoIP news, trends, experts, product reviews. Carrier and enterprise-class voice over ip. |
| www.voip-news.com |
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| O'Reilly Network -- What Is VoIP |
| Ted Wallingford looks at why the VoIP technology, the key ingredient in Vonage, Skype, Cisco CallManager, and a host of other technology products, ... |
| www.oreillynet.com |
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| What is VoIP? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer ... |
| This page describes the term VoIP and lists other pages on the Web where you can find additional information. |
| www.webopedia.com |
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| Access >> VoIP | CNET News.com |
| EarthLink expands VoIP service. Eight more cities will get access to Net phone service that requires no ... Verizon sues Vonage for VoIP patent infringement ... |
| news.com.com |
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| Pages tagged with "voip" on del.icio.us |
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| VoIP (Voice Over IP) Solutions - AudioCodes |
| VoIP, VoP Chip Processors and Voice over IP packets solutions developed by AudioCodes, leaders in the VoIP market for VoIP equipment and VoIP technology. |
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