VOIP - Telling it Straight

VOIP is just one of many acronyms that technologically savvy people use when discussing internet technology.

The common man is more likely to say phone service.

Recently I met a lady who was using VOIP as her primary phone service. She had no real awareness that she wasn’t using the same technology that we use at my house. For that matter, how many people actually know what technology allows them to call their mother, or friend, or 911 – over the traditional phone line, over the cell phone systems, or now over the VOIP services?

For the majority of people looking to make a phone call, the only thing that really matters is the bottom line. This is one of the reasons that VOIP is becoming such a popular service.

VOIP works over the internet protocol – meaning it costs the same as sending an email for the most part. Subscribers are able to pay a flat fee and then can call most anywhere in the world at little or no extra cost.

VOIP technology may be new. Voice over Internet Protocol may be hard to explain. But making phone calls on the cheap is a universal language that anyone can understand. The growing popularity of VOIP proves that no matter what you call it, this new way of communicating is making a mark in the telephony industry.