Internet telephony, or VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) has been around the consumer market for a while now. Personally, our family has been using Vonage for almost 2 years now and let me tell you, the experience has been wonderful. Currently we are paying about $25 per month for both local and long distance phone calls. We no longer pay the added fees traditional telephone companies make consumers pay. My most favorite feature of this service is having the ability to bring my home phone with me anywhere there is an high-speed Internet connection. I can make and receive calls just as if I was home. There is a whole lot more I could tell you about VoIP, but I will point you to the experts over at cnet.com. They do a much better job at explaining this exciting technology.
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Your next telephone may not actually be a telephone. It may look and work like a phone, but it will connect to the Internet, not a telephone line, and it will cost less than today’s phones. You’ll also get better features and ease of use. Over the next few years, more products using Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, will be coming online. But there’s no need to wait–today’s batch of Internet phone products have useful features and can save you money, starting now…more
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