Congratulations are in order! You've switched to Voip and you've got your very own touch screen Voice over IP desk phone, to ensure beyond all doubt that you will be the envy of all about you. You're feeling proud with yourself, thinking of all the money you'll soon be saving.
But the world of internet telephony is a big one, and there are still some things that you're not completely sure about, and feel that you need to be bought up to speed on. And so here is a party-trick sized nugget of knowledge known only by a privileged few. How to save money making international calls.
Whether you're in a business that needs to call internationally on a regular basis, or a personal user who has relatives abroad that he likes to keep in touch with, making regular cross-continental calls can quickly mount up to substantial amounts.
But why would I want to save money on internet calls when they are already so much cheaper than standard call costs? Well, maybe you don't. Maybe you're the kind of person who is happy to think that they are saving enough money as it is. But if you're not one of those people, listen up. The way to save even more money on international calls is this; purchase a separate phone number in the country you wish to call.
If, for example, you live in the UK but your family lives in the USA, certain Voice over IP service providers can provide you with an American phone number, even though you're phone is only in the UK. Once you have a separate number assigned in this way, all calls made to your family will be charged only at local rate. This is also a particularly useful service if you are with a company who conducts a lot of business in a particular country.
Another benefit of making international calls through an internet telephone system is when making a conference call. The standard conference call procedure consists of all participants calling into a designated number in order to be connected to each other through the conference system. With a Voice over IP system, however, the conference caller can call out to each participant individually, meaning only one call cost from the operator as opposed to several. Nice.
Efforts are continually being made to entice people away from the good old standard and trusted analogue phone system and to embrace Voice over IP technology. The latest attempt at this has been to bring out a range of handsets that can work through any internet telephone system as well as any traditional landline system, offering the advantage of Voip with the comfort of analogue.
As the technology improves, so will the services offered by internet telephone companies, which in turn will encourage more and more people to switch to Voip communication. The negatives of owning such a system are few and far between and with the ever increasing quality of technology and services offered, soon there will be no negatives left, and absolutely no reason to not go Voip.
But the world of internet telephony is a big one, and there are still some things that you're not completely sure about, and feel that you need to be bought up to speed on. And so here is a party-trick sized nugget of knowledge known only by a privileged few. How to save money making international calls.
Whether you're in a business that needs to call internationally on a regular basis, or a personal user who has relatives abroad that he likes to keep in touch with, making regular cross-continental calls can quickly mount up to substantial amounts.
But why would I want to save money on internet calls when they are already so much cheaper than standard call costs? Well, maybe you don't. Maybe you're the kind of person who is happy to think that they are saving enough money as it is. But if you're not one of those people, listen up. The way to save even more money on international calls is this; purchase a separate phone number in the country you wish to call.
If, for example, you live in the UK but your family lives in the USA, certain Voice over IP service providers can provide you with an American phone number, even though you're phone is only in the UK. Once you have a separate number assigned in this way, all calls made to your family will be charged only at local rate. This is also a particularly useful service if you are with a company who conducts a lot of business in a particular country.
Another benefit of making international calls through an internet telephone system is when making a conference call. The standard conference call procedure consists of all participants calling into a designated number in order to be connected to each other through the conference system. With a Voice over IP system, however, the conference caller can call out to each participant individually, meaning only one call cost from the operator as opposed to several. Nice.
Efforts are continually being made to entice people away from the good old standard and trusted analogue phone system and to embrace Voice over IP technology. The latest attempt at this has been to bring out a range of handsets that can work through any internet telephone system as well as any traditional landline system, offering the advantage of Voip with the comfort of analogue.
As the technology improves, so will the services offered by internet telephone companies, which in turn will encourage more and more people to switch to Voip communication. The negatives of owning such a system are few and far between and with the ever increasing quality of technology and services offered, soon there will be no negatives left, and absolutely no reason to not go Voip.
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Saul Saresi writes regularly on all aspects of Voip technology and software for his site VoIPDito business voip further details of the latest Voip technologies and software can be found here internet telephony
