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What is Voice over IP (VoIP)?The fact that you are reading this means that you have to pay for your Internet, and you may also have to pay around 40 dollars for your phone per month. At the speeds of transmission required for the fast Internet, and much less bandwidth required for voice communication, you’re probably asking yourself as to why you should be paying twice for essentially the same service.
And guess what? You’re right. Even though the ideal world is technically possible, you can’t expect people sit at their computers all the time answering their Skype, which they can download free of charge or other applications such as AOL Instant Messenger and MSN Messenger. The ideal world does not exist. There are some mobile phones that have the Internet capability. A lot of people seem to be smart enough to learn how to use the old-style telephone lines and it not clear why but they would rather make phone calls from old-style telephones.
So what, there are companies that provide people with what the things they want. In this case, two things. Thing 1 is a little box, which can be plugged into your Internet connection, whatever it might be, and the other end plugs into the phone lines of your house, to simulate the phone company electricity wised so that old phone rings and dials they way you like it. Thing 2 is access to a network of interfaces between the Internet and traditional phone systems throughout the world; outgoing calls travel on the Internet as far as they can and then are finally injected into the local phone network near the person you're calling; incoming calls are routed via a mysterious arrangement to your VoIP provider and then over the Internet to the little box in your house.
Advantages of Voice over IP (in comparison with the traditional phone service)
Lets say the parents in Podunk, Idaho, who want to call their daughter in Timbuktu. Assume that there is some Internet in both locations. Some money, like $15-20 a month can get them a VoIP box with a U.S. phone number. Whenever they call each other the calls are free. When the daughter in Timbuktu calls her parents or friends in the U.S. or Canada it is still a domestic call and free. The parents and daughters’ friends won't have to pay anything extra to call to Timbuktu either. Keep in mind that that the VoIP boxes work anywhere it can get an Internet connection, no matter in what country it is physically located.
For a business then it does not matter whether the customers are in Europe or in America, the advantage of VoIP is that extra local numbers can be added at a small additional monthly fee to save customers the cost of calling in. Thus, a client in Spain for instance, dials what appears like a Madrid number but the phone rings in Chicago.
The VoIP voicemail service can be set up to email you messages as audio file attachments, which can be useful if you're traveling in various countries so that you van check your voice messages from an Internet cafe.
Disadvantages You might wish you hadn't switched to Voice over IP if your Internet connection fails and you want to call your Internet Service Provider. If you have not kept your ‘traditional’ phone you might use your cell phone. In case of power failure in the area, you won’t be able to use Voice over IP either.
Also, calling emergency services may not work.
SkypeOut when in HotelsIf you have a laptop and Internet connection you can make calls to standard phone numbers within North America, Western Europe, and Australia/New Zealand.
Regulations to facilitate global enslavementWith current trends of global take over by the world bankers, these control freaks impose restrictions on free speech in general, like they do in china, Italy the UK, New Zealand and Australia, free communication may turn out to be heavily regulated under any pretext they might come up with.
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