March 29, 2008
by: Djai Tanji
With the use of Voice over Internet Protocol, we can make calls from anywhere with broadband connection. Because of the fact that ATA’s or IP phones transmit their information via internet, it can be easily administered by the service provider anywhere as long as there is a connection. This means that travellers and business men or women can bring their IP phone or ATA’s anywhere when they are on trips and they would always have connection to their home phones. Softphone, is an alternative client software responsible for loading the VoIP service on your computer. The softphone has a border on your screen that looks exactly like a home telephone and as long as your headset and microphone is connected, you can make calls from your computer to any place in the world with broadband links.
March 15, 2008
Recently, Nokia made the announcement of introducing 6300i phone. It has the features which benefits from both GSM and VoIP connectivity. This mobile phone can make calls via the mobile internet or Wi-Fi networks. It can restore up to two thousand VoIP, home and mobile numbers. The 6300i will display dedicated WLAN and VoIP symbols show the connection status and type of phone call, whether it is using GSM network or VoIP. This phone is an upgrade to the original 6300. Announcement has been made that it will be available this year. VoIP in the mobile handset will be very useful to the business industry and its availability will enhance the communication industry.
March 10, 2008
How good (or bad ) does your VoIP perform? It is simply a QoS (quality-of-service) matter. Compared to the traditional telephone, VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) can actually supply service levels that can match and even exceed the traditional phone service. Widespread perceptions says it can’t but VoIP QoS is an issue that’s central to nearly all IP telephony users has tried improving and managing. Quality of Service (Qos) is a challenge that requires a solid understanding of some technical issues as well as business insights. VoIP adopters come to realize that service quality on multiple levels is a commitment to address. Now fast becoming acceptable in the worldwide market, this system of communication will hit it big.
March 7, 2008
by: Djai Tanji
According to Michael Phillips from broadbandchoices.co.uk, although we can all save money for all the lengthy phone calls abroad we need to make with the use of VoIP services, he warned that there are still issues about VoIP that needs to be taken cared of first. And when asked if he thinks this system could soon outflank mobile phone calls or landlines, he said it is still far fetched to think about that because anyway landlines are even used in setting up a broadband. And besides, according to him, VoIP has disadvantages as well like quality problems. According to him, it is easily recognized if the caller is using VoIP services because of its quality trouble.
March 5, 2008
VoIP calls had been tax-free in Los Angeles City but now voters are imposed with a 9 percent tax on Internet phone calls, known as VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol).
Internet phone service is now a rapidly growing segment of the telephone market. Unlike before where most phone calls are made over traditional wireline or wireless phones. On the February 5 ballot in Los Angeles, Measure S appeared to have won by nearly a two-thirds margin. A one percent point reduction in the tax on all other phone calls was also enacted. The tax money would go toward police protection as promised to those who supported Measure S.
March 1, 2008
When VoiP was initially introduced five years ago, the promises of dramatically lower long distance charges and more features seemed almost too good to be true. People find it hard to believe that Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) an be an alternative to the dominance of the big telephone companies. During that time conversations using VoIP has a poor quality. Calls mysteriously dropped, sometimes either lagged or at times it sounded like they were routed through a toilet bowl
Today, VoIP has come up with a system that can produce clearer voice conversations using the computer and sounded like a next door landline user. It only proves that the claim of telecommunication companies that VoIP wasn’t yet mature enough for business or consumers, is wrong.
