Why Home VOIP Is A Must Have?
By infohome
@infohome (1219)
India
March 30, 2007 12:42am CST
Why home VoIP is a must have? The answer to this query rests with the advantages VoIP services has over a traditional phone service.
The major aspect in which home VoIP services outscore its traditional phone rival is its low cost of operation. That is, for the same services-making long distance calls or conferencing-VoIP companies usually charge much lesser than a normal telephone company would do. Yes, you may have to pay a monthly fee for your broadband connection, but here it is assumed that you use it mostly for browsing the web and VoIP is just an additional facility.
Again, with VoIP services, the customer can opt to own virtual telephone numbers in any place covered by the VoIP provider. That is, if you want your friends or peers in another state to be able to make calls to your VoIP phone without any additional cost or for local call cost, what all you have to do is to get a telephone number in that state and have the respective call routed to your ATA irrespective of your current physical location. By doing so, the maximum the caller may have to shell out for calling you will be the cost for a local call. This is a facility that is non-existent in the traditional phone services domain.
We have already mentioned the low cost advantage of home VoIP services. There is in fact one more aspect that contributes to the overall lower costs of home VoIP services. This is the lesser taxation imposed on VoIP in general. May be it's a fault with the design of taxes or the failure of the government to judge the taxation possibilities of VoIP facilities owing to the fact that it is a relatively new technology. But, as of now, the customer stands advantageous as the only tax amount charged on the bill is the Federal Excise Tax. So, if to draw parallels, while one could use a full fledged home VoIP for $20 odd, the same amount one may required to pay as taxes alone if he/she is using a traditional phone and that even without making a single call.
To sum it up, if you are a person who spends his/her money wisely, then you'll mostly feel at home with VoIP services. After all, if you have a reliable, flexible, and cheapest VoIP provider at your service, why look for a more costly one, especially if both offer necessarily the same service?
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1 response
@zxtzxt (214)
• Philippines
22 Feb 08
One of the drawback actually for using voip was theres no or limited 911 feature.
Also when choosing voip providers make sure you can use it witor h ATA device (analog telephone adapter) or voip phone so you don't need to turn on your pc to use it otherwise you have to leave it open and that will consume power.
Another thing is, voip is internet and power dependent so unless you got a very good isp (which I do) then voip is not for you.
Those things above are the very reason why I'm still holding on to my landline and signed up with Onesuite.com because I can use my account both for voip and as a phone card whichever suits the moment.


