Adam Dubroff of TravelGlue, the company who wired the Residence Inn for VoIP, informed CNN that “Until now, hotel guests have paid a premium for the convenience of long distance service, which was appropriate when there were no cell phones and it really was a convenience.”

Dubroff also added, “But as technology has developed, it has become an old business model and the prices charged have been rendered exorbitant. Now, because of VoIP, there is an opportunity to provide guests with a phone service for free and I think this will be the norm in the future.”

The Wynn in Las Vegas has taken the VoIP technology to the fullest extreme offering reservations, hotel information and more right from a touch screen VoIP phone. Plus when a user accesses the broadband Internet the Wynn offers, they can use their personal VoIP service for only the cost of the Internet access.

A lot of VoIP providers allow their users to take their service with them wherever they travel. To give an example, Skype offers a free VoIP service that can be used directly with a user’s computer and broadband Internet connection. Now this allows the user to access it just about any place and at any time.