Diversified VoIP

VoIP and the idea of VoIP is spreading rapidly worldwide, and consumers are beginning to see all the benefits and varieties there are. The questions to ask yourself as a consumer are, what are the benefits of VoIP, how has it evolved, and how diversified is it compared to the PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network)?

The benefits of VoIP are astronomical. Residential and business consumers are finding that they can save almost 10-50% off their phone bills. On average, a residential subscriber now pays between $30-$50 to have a plain home telephone line, and an average business subscriber pays between $50-$70 to have a plain business telephone line. The taxes on phone service alone are enough to drive even the most sane person crazy and penniless. In comparison, the cost of VoIP for a residential subscriber ranges from $0-$40 and for a business can range from $30-$50, and the taxes…well, with VoIP, they’re little to none. What a savings!

VoIP has been found to not only be cost effective, but it has been found to be versatile as well. A residential or business consumer is locked down to their home or office with the standard landline from the local telephone company, but with VoIP, consumers can travel the world and still use their service. Whether they take their VoIP equipment with them or turn on features such as Call Forwarding, Remote Office, or even make calls using their voice portals, they have the ability to use their VoIP phone service away from the home or office.

VoIP is evolving to suit the consumer; originally allowing only for voice traffic to be sent from PC to PC, now calls can be made from phone to phone or video phone to video phone, and it is becoming more and more diversified. Consumers are not locked down to a plain old telephone. They can use softphones (software that runs on a PC that allows one to dial from their desktop or laptop computer), headsets, handsets, video phones, toolbars that run at the top of a user’s internet browser of a computer allowing for one click dialing, and much, much more.

Consumers no longer are tied to the one or two options they used to have for a local phone company, they can now surf the web and choose from one of the many thousands of VoIP providers that will offer them exactly what they are looking for; a diversified VoIP for a diversified world.

Lisa Evanock
VoIP Administrator
www.mconnectinc.com

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