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I would be interested in your thoughts on using VOIP technlogy to replace landlines. What options are out there?
Comment by Bath Lifts — May 25, 2010 @ 12:21 pm
As you are probably aware voip stands for “voice over Internet protocol”. A managed network that is uncontended or which gives voice data packets priority should provide good quality calls but the Internet itself is contended and largely unmanaged, and doesn’t give priority to voice, so when the Internet is busy (or your branch or the other end branch of it is busy) then calls can break up. So for large corporations which can use voip over their private networks it is fine, for Internet telephony it is variable. For International video conferencing with your grandma in Australia you can put up with the call breaking up a bit but you have to make a judgement on whether the quality is good enough for business calls.
Try Skype to see what the quality is likely to be – a good echo cancelling microphone or headset which avoids speaker feedback is best. Handsets which use voip will have that echo cancellation built-in. Search for voip on our main site and look at the relevant Google ads which show around the page.
Comment by admin — May 25, 2010 @ 2:55 pm
Voip is great and a very cheap or even free option but you still usually need to have a land line for emergencies though?
Comment by Affiliate home business — June 26, 2010 @ 12:55 pm