FAQ - VoIP

What is VoIP?
Voice-Over-Internet Protocol. VoIP allows you to make telephone calls using a computer network. VoIP converts the voice signal from your telephone into a digital signal.

What are the benefits of VoIP?
There are lots of benefits in VoIP. One of them is making communications cheaper. There is a new solution for people who do a lot of international calls. The site is hicalls . com. You can make international long distance calls thru VoIP for FREE between clients and for cents to non-clients. It almost turns any phone into a wi-fi phone. You can call worldwide from a car or any vehicle.

How reliable are VOIP services?
Depending on your internet connection and your chosen provider, VOIP can either be very reliable or very unreliable.

Choose your ISP and VOIP provider carefully.

What are pros and cons of VOIP digital phone?
Don't really see any disadvantages of VoIP, and I work in the telecommunications business. The advantages are that you can use a company like vonage and you can pay a single monthly fee (I pay 25 bucks a month plus various taxes) and I can call my parents in England all day and every day for nothing extra and my wife can call her family in California all day every day for no extra. In the old days of voip, the calls were subject to a slightlly annoying delay, but now you cannot tell a voip call from a regular telephone call.

What device is required so that you can connect a regular telephone to a VoIP network?
The device is called an "ATA" (Analog Telephone Adapter). It converts your voice into data, and sends it across the internet, also decodes data sent by the VoIP network back into voice (so you can hear the person you called). You can buy ATAs alone, or get them from any major VoIP provider.

How do dial your voip phone for international calls?
Check this info at your VoIP provider it may differ depending on which kind of software do you use.
Default is 00 (country code like 49 is for Germany) and then the number.

What companies are the examples of VoIP carriers?
A few examples of VoIP carriers would be VOIP.com, Packet8, Vonage, and Comcast. These are just a few. These are the more popular ones of course.