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BROADBAND PHONE
Broadband™
Internet phone service allows residential and business
customers to use their cable modem, DSL modem, or other BroadBand Internet connection to make and receive Voice over IP phone calls using your home computer.
Internet
Phone
Sometimes called Internet phones, broadband phone use the
Internet instead of regular phone networks to transmit phone
calls. VoIP technology (Voice over Internet Protocol)
The phone rings,
and you pick it up. Or call someone, just as you usually would.
(Note that I’m talking about hardware broadband phones here
rather than software broadband phone services that need to
operate through a computer.) And like other phone services, you
can get broadband phone services bundled with all kinds of
other phone services, such as caller ID, call waiting and
voicemail.
Broadband
Satellite Phone
The main selling point of Internet phones and broadband phone
services is savings on long-distance phone calls; because your
broadband phone call travels over the Internet instead of over
regular phone lines, your call bypasses regular Telco tolls –
making broadband phone services less expensive than “regular”
phone services. Broadband Phone Service Choices There are
currently two main competitors in the broadband phone
services .
You have to have a
high-speed Internet connection (DSL, Cable, T1 line or greater access)to use
broadband phone services.
Broadband
phone services are subject to all of the same security and
reliability issues as anything else that’s Internet based –
power outages or viruses could knock out your Internet broadband
phone.
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