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4 Things You Need To Know Before You Switch To VOIP Services

VOIP Service for making and receiving 2. When your high-speed Internet
phone calls is probably the most cost connection goes out, so does your phone
effective way to communicate, and is Despite the fact that they have
showing the phone companies that their over-charged us for years, you need to
"cash cow" of home telephone service may give the telephone company credit, since
be coming to an end on the horizon. when you pick up the phone, you almost
Still, VOIP service is not for everyone, always can hear the comforting sound of a
and here are some things that you need to dial tone, ready to make your call.
verify and feel good about before you With a VOIP phone, you are depending on
consider switching to VOIP service. your Internet connection to make and
1. Your High-Speed Internet Connection is receive phone calls. If your high-speed
critical. service goes down, then your ability to
Almost any VOIP service that you choose use your VOIP phone also goes down until
is not going to include high-speed the internet service comes back up. This
Internet service. The VOIP provider again goes back to the reliability of
assumes you already have that, and would your high-speed Internet connection and
have that whether you decided to provider.
implement VOIP or not, which is probably 3. Be sure 911 is supported
true in most cases. All VOIP providers are supposed to be
However, what the VOIP service provider setup so that they support 911 (or E-911)
does not tell you is that your high-speed services in case of emergency. You see,
Internet connection needs to be fast, with a traditional phone line, if you
stable, and reliable. Depending on where call 911, they can tell where you are
you are and what high-speed Internet calling from. But this same ability does
provider you have chosen, this may not be not exist with a VOIP phone, so you need
a given. The VOIP provider has ZERO to register your VOIP phone with the
control over this - if you have a lousy service so that if you call 911 from your
Internet connection, VOIP will be lousy, VOIP phone, the emergency responders will
it is a one-to-one relationship. know where to go.
There are various online sites that allow 4. Be ready to save money and have
you to do a speed test on your connection tremendous flexibility.
so you can get a feel for how fast it is. There is no doubt about it, VOIP service
The problem is that these tests do not is significantly cheaper than traditional
tell the whole story - it might have been phones from the phone company. At no
fast at the moment you did the test, but extra charge, you typically get the
is slower than molasses an hour later. Do features you would pay the phone company
you notice it stopping when you are using extra for, like caller ID, call waiting,
it or having significant time delays? voice mail, and call blocking. You also
This could be a sign that VOIP will not typically get unlimited or high-usage
work well on it. local and long distance calling
Also, do people in your household also throughout the country at no additional
use the computer when you would be cost with VOIP.
talking on your VOIP phone? If so, your If you travel, you can take your VOIP
connection may not be capable of handling phone with you. If you are traveling to
both connections at the same time. visit your friends in Denver or cousin in
Typically this is more of a problem for New York, just plug your VOIP phone into
DSL than for cable, but it can represent their high-speed modem and you can
a problem with a cable connection as continue to make and receive calls just
well. as if you were at home, using your same
Is your only option a satellite phone number. If you are in a hotel in
high-speed Internet connection? Forget Chicago, again plug your VOIP phone into
it. You are not going to be happy with the high-speed connection in your hotel
the results of VOIP service on a room, and you are making and receiving
satellite connection. phone calls as if you were at home.




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