If you are doing business online we all know that having a phone number available for people to contact you is a must. Not only does this make communication much easier and more effective, but at the same time it makes you look very professional and stand out from the crowd. My phone number is posted publicly on facebook and many other sites for the sole purpose of making myself available to those I work with on the internet. Maybe you haven’t noticed, but is very hard to do business, if people cannot get ahold of you! There is no reason to spend big bucks on a phone line these days, voip phone service is getting to be very reasonable.
What Is VOIP Voice Over IP?
Good question. Many do not know what voip is and what it stand for is simply “Voice Over IP” and IP stands for Internet Protocol. This simply means that this is a phone service that is ran over the internet, as long as you have a decent internet connection, you can save big on your monthly phone bill.
What Companies Offer VOIP?
Well there are many who are jumping into the voip business and Verison, ATT and one of the most popular, or at least most advertised is Vonage. However these services are still charging anywhere between $10.00 and $19.99 Per Month of Service! Well you may say that this sounds like a great deal and for the most part it is. On the other hand, how does $20/Year for all the phone calls you can make or receive and including long distance sound?
How Can I Get Unlimited Calling For $20.00/Year?
Let me tell you about a new company that I have been with for about one year now, the company is called Magic Jack and these guys are amazing! They offer a free trial of there service so you can make sure it is going to work for you. I use there service for all my business calls and it does not cost anything per month, it only costs $19.99/year and that is cheap!
They have many cool features including custom voice messages and call forwarding. The neatest feature they have is the voice mail witch comes to you in your email. For me this is awesome because I can check my home phone/landline messages right from my iPhone.
The simple matter of fact way I look at this phone service is like this. You can buy this gadget and pay for one full years phone service for the same price as 2 months of Vonage. I mean really, it seems like a no brainer to me. So if you are looking for a great voip provider at an unbelievable price, look no further and get on over to Magic Jack today!
Much Success,
Nick Simpson
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icallsimple.com can be a great competition. check the rates.
I looked at this site and all I got was confused. Maybe I am missing something?
Sorry for the delayed response. What was confusing? Simple rates.. per minute. It’s a prepaid VoIP service. Soon its application for iPhone and PCs will be released.
I have a question is this web Phone service for international Phone calls as well?
Yes it does do international, but there is a fee associated with it, pretty much like skype if you are going to call an international phone, they have low rates, but there is a fee for these.
Impressive piece of information, let me elaborate more on VoIP. Voice over Internet Protocol has been around since many years. But due to lack of sufficient and affordable bandwidth it was not possible to carry carrier grade voice over Internet Protocol. But since the arrival of low cost internet bandwidth and new speech codecs such as G.729, G.723 which utilizes very low payload to carry carrier class voice it has recently been possible to leverage the true benefits of VoIP. G.723 codec utilizes only 6 Kbps (Kilo Bytes/sec) which is capable of maintaining a constant stream of data between peers and deliver carrier grade voice quality. Lets put this way if you have 8 Mbps internet connection, by using G.723 codec you can run upto 100 telephone lines with crystal clear and carrier grade voice quality. I am also a user of VoIP and have setup a small PBX at home. Since I have discovered VoIP I have never used traditional PSTN service.
Dear readers, if you have not yet tried VoIP I suggest that you try VoIP technology and I bet you will never want to use the traditional PSTN phone service ever again. VoIP has far more superior features to offer which traditional PSTN sadly cannot offer.
Also It has recently been possile to carry Video alongwith VoIP by using low payload video codecs. I cannot resist to tell you that by using T.38 passthrough and disabling VAD VoIP can carry FAX transmission, but beaware FAX T.38 passthrough will only work when using wide band protocols such as G.711, a-Law and u-Law.
By using ATA (Analog Telephone Adapter) which converts VoIP signals into traditional PSTN you can also using Dial-up modems to connect to various dialup services. I wont go in to the details what VoIP can offer, to cut my story short VoIP is a must to have product for every business and individual.
How VoIP Works
When we make a VoIP call, a communication channel is established between caller and called party over IP (Internet Protocol) which runs on top of computer data networks. A telephony conversation that takes place over VoIP are converted into binary data packets streams in real time and transmitted over data network, when these data packets arrive at the destination these are again converted into standard telephony conversation. This whole process of voice conversion into data, transmission and data conversion into back voice conversation takes place within less than few milliseconds. That is how a VoIP is call is transmitted over data networks. I hope that now you understand basics of how a VoIP call takes place.
What are speech codec’s and what role codec plays in VoIP?
Speech codec play a vital role in VoIP and codec determines the quality and cost of the call. Let me explain you what exactly VoIP codec’s are and how they work. You may have heard about data compression, or probably you have heard about air compressor which compresses a volume of air in enclosed container, VoIP codec’s are no different than a air compressor. Speech codec’s compresses voice into data packets and decompresses it upon arrival at destination. Some VoIP codec’s can compress huge amount of voice while maintaining QoS which means use this type of codec will cost less because it will consume just a fraction of data network. Some codec’s are just not capable of encoding huge amount of voice they simply consume huge amount of data networks bandwidth hence the cost goes up.
Following is a list of VoIP codec’s along with how much data network bandwidth they consume.
* AMR Codec
* BroadVoice Codec 16Kbps narrowband, and 32Kbps wideband
* GIPS Family – 13.3 Kbps and up
* GSM – 13 Kbps (full rate), 20ms frame size
* iLBC – 15Kbps,20ms frame size: 13.3 Kbps, 30ms frame size
* ITU G.711 – 64 Kbps, sample-based Also known as alaw/ulaw
* ITU G.722 – 48/56/64 Kbps ADPCM 7Khz audio bandwidth
* ITU G.722.1 – 24/32 Kbps 7Khz audio bandwidth (based on Polycom’s SIREN codec)
* ITU G.722.1C – 32 Kbps, a Polycom extension, 14Khz audio bandwidth
* ITU G.722.2 – 6.6Kbps to 23.85Kbps. Also known as AMR-WB. CELP 7Khz audio bandwidth
* ITU G.723.1 – 5.3/6.3 Kbps, 30ms frame size
* ITU G.726 – 16/24/32/40 Kbps
* ITU G.728 – 16 Kbps
* ITU G.729 – 8 Kbps, 10ms frame size
* Speex – 2.15 to 44.2 Kbps
* LPC10 – 2.5 Kbps
* DoD CELP – 4.8 Kbps
Switch to VoIP Today and you will never want to use traditional PSTN ever again.
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-Imran
my sister is very good in installing VOIP equipments and i really admire her for that.-`”