Sunday, January 11, 2009

VoIP Services - Money Saving Tips

Voice over Internet Protocol more commonly called as VoIP helps the businesses to reduce their monthly communication expenditure significantly. Before we go deep into the article and discuss the money saving tips with the VoIP services lets understand VoIP.

What is VoIP?
It is the transmission of your voice over an IP network. This is also called as IP telephony. With the help of this technology you can make the long distance calls through your personal computer. To make such calls you need some hardware and software.

The hardware that you need:
A personal computer, a microphone, headset or a speaker and an internet service provider.

The software that you need:
Internet telephony services such as the Skype and the messenger services such as AOL, MSN and yahoo. You can download Skype, create your username and search the user name of the person whom you want to make a call. The software helps the business organizations to conduct free conference callings to more than two people simultaneously.

Now coming to the money saving tips; the secret to save money with VoIP lies in its features and uses. The service helps you to reduce the cost of communication, helps you to reach several of your clients in different regions and it helps you to conduct meetings. Let's discuss these points in detail.

Cuts down on the communication costs
You don't have to spend on the maintenance of the telephone lines. It helps you to reach your clients no matter what their location is. The only thing that you need is a set up which facilitate you with this and common software which you and your client should use.

The communication is free. You don't have to travel to attend meetings. You can conduct them online. The expenses that you accrue are one time and after that you just have to communicate which is absolutely free.

But there are certain services which are not free. If you use the technology away from your computer then you have to apply for the paid service. But this service is far cheaper than the telephony services which we use currently. Your can use these services to make international calls at very low costs.

Help you save taxes
As you use broadband internet connections you don't have to pay Federal USF and Federal FCC line charges.
Helps you save on the costs of changing the network

You don't have to spend to change the network when you shift your employees to different locations. The VoIP devices are intelligent enough to adapt to the new locations.

No regulatory fees
You don't have to pay the regulatory fees and the leasing fees like you do for your traditional phone lines.

The technology is being adopted by businesses worldwide and telecommunication companies are coming up with plans to merge internet technology with the mobile technology so as to provide better services to their clients.

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