The FCC and VoIP

For over 100 years, the FCC has been governing and regulating telecommunications. From establishing central 911 systems, to governing what is legal and illegal activity handled upon telephone wires, the FCC has been setting federal rules and laws in place and keeping telephony working to the best advantage for all citizens. Now, here comes VoIP to throw the FCC threw a loop. Because the very nature of VoIP is...

The Benefits of VoIP

VoIP offers many services and benefits that are not available to standard telephone users. VoIP stands for Voice over Internet Protocol and is the technology used to transmit audio files as data over the Internet. Either another computer then receives the packets, a VoIP enabled phone, or a standard telephone. People love VoIP because it is cheaper than standard landline telephones. There are currently no tax...

Ten Reasons to Go Wireless

Why go wireless? Many people today are asking the same question. VoIP is Voice Over Internet Protocol. It is also commonly referred to as VoIP, IP, Digital Phone, and Internet Telephony. VoIP is basically your voice traveling over the Internet as opposed to PSTN or the Public Switched Telephone Network. VoIP offers many benefits and advantages over PSTN networks. Here are the top ten reasons why you should go...

Codecs and VoIP

VoIP stands for Voice over Internet Protocol. It is the science behind transmitting audio over the Internet in the form of data Packets. During VoIP’s inception, people were concerned about the quality of Audio being transmitted over the Internet. Since its development, VoIP and audio Codecs have improved greatly. To get the most out of your VoIP connection you will need to take the time and effort to keep your...

City-wide WiFi: a threat to cellular networks?

Word has it that the Cloud network is set to establish city-wide WiFi hotspot networks in the United Kingdom. The Cloud, which operates pay public WiFi hotspots in the UK, Sweden and Germany, is targeting this to possibly service users of WiFi-enabled Voice-over-Internet Protocol handsets, or VoWiFi, as well as other wireless-enabled devices such as laptops, PDAs, portable game consoles, and the even hybrid-type...

Pulling the Plug

Telephones have been plugging in for over 100 years. Today, thanks to new technology and the way people are thinking of telecommunications, people are literally pulling the plug on their telephones. VoIP stands for Voice over Internet Protocol and this technology is taking the world by storm. More American homes are including computers with High Speed Internet connections, and with high tech homes, exposure to all...

VoIP and instant messaging

Instant messaging has been around for almost a decade, as users of then-popular instant messaging clients ICQ and AOL (now considered dinosaurs) can attest—or even more, perhaps in some forms not well-known to the Internet-using public. Voice-over-Internet Protocol, however has seen a rise to popularity in only the recent couple of years. But users may not be aware that even before the popularity of VoIP as we...

Products and Services

VoIP technology is on the move. As it continues to draw popularity new products and services are continually flooding consumers. Some of these products are hitting customers before rules and regulations can even be initiated for the technology as a whole. Yet VoIP continues to rise, and due to its wonderful cost efficiency remains a viable force in the telecommunications arena. Some products and services applicable...

Phones Going Digital?

Digital phone is another name for VoIP. Digital phones or VoIP, which stands for Voice over Internet Protocol, is the science of transmitting audio over the Internet. Digital phones are gaining in popularity and earning their respect as viable competition for analog phones. Many people are turning to the solutions digital phones have to offer. There are many benefits to VoIP. For instance, VoIP networks are fast....

PC to PC

VoIP stands for Voice over Internet Protocol. It is the technology that is used to incorporate the transmission of audio over the Internet in the form of packets. This is in contrast to the PSTN or the Public Switched Telephone Network- the telephone network we have all come to know and rely upon for the past century. The very nature of VoIP and PSTN are completely different and the future appears to show that more...