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I've been encountering more and more references to VOIP - Voice Over IP - lately. Supposedly I can pay a company a little bit of money (relative to my current phone bill) and set up a computer system at home with VOIP software, resulting in substatial savings on my phone bill along with improved options in my phone call handling. Heck, AT&T has VOIP with unlimited long dist and local for $29/month, and $19 for unlimited local... voip.net has even better rates, plus killer international rates - 2 cents/min to London?!? Wow. Almost makes me want to send the kids to boarding school with the Brits...
Personally I can't do this yet b/c my wife won't let us change phone numbers, so I don't have a driving need to read about it as much. But one day we'll add a kid's line, and it'll come in handy. (Oldest is 10 and on the phone all the time these days).
A friend of mine at work is implementing it - he makes calls to Vietnam fairly often to talk to family - this will be much cheaper for him, plus he can work in conferencing options, all for MUCH cheaper. Hmmmm....
Might be a consideration for some of my side businesses....
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Already Got VOIP
Authored by: Anonymous on
Wednesday, November 17 2004 @ 10:19 AM CST
Hey Nat, We've been on VOIP with VoicePulse for about 3 months now. We're paying about $26.00 per month. No serious complaints. By the way, we got to keep our phone number!
Jim