VOIP Articles

Voice over internet protocol [internet telephony] is a rapidly growing technological alternative to traditional land based residential phone systems. Instead of making calls through telephone lines, VoIP routes your calls over the internet by way of your cable or DSL provider. Notably, residential VoIP phone rates are cheaper by at least 50%, making VoIP an attractive option for many consumers. Today, three internet telephony companies are leading the way in signing up new customers – Packet8, Lingo, and Vonage – so let’s examine and compare their offers to find the VoIP plan that works best for you.

What draws many people to make the switch from their normal phone system to Asterisk? What are the benefits and the upsides of using Asterisk? Will it save you additional costs?

PhoneFusion is not your typical VoIP provider. While VoIP is an important option in PhoneFusion service, customers get so much more. Features include Call Recording, Call Guard to protect callers from dropped calls, Fax to E-mail, Voicemail to E-mail, Meet Me Conference Calling and many more.

When VoIP was first introduced to the market, there was an apparent lack of quality. One of the first-stage VoIP providers was Netscape. Later on, countless companies introduced themselves to market like Vonage and AT&T CallVantage. This second generation of VoIP providers produced services with good quality but their feature set was lacking. We have now moved into the third generation, and the pioneer of third generation VoIP service is PhoneFusion.

Executives for companies all over the world constantly need to be in touch. PhoneFusion's Find Me/Follow Me feature allows them to give out one number instead giving out an office, cell phone, hotel or pager number. With the Call Notifier, executives can get an e-mail as soon as someone has left a message. The Web Call Back feature can free up an executive's assistant from constantly providing missing or forgotten numbers.

When business partners need to sit down and discuss a project, they use a conference room. In this day and age, partners work in different offices in different cities all over the world. Companies spend thousands of dollars each year paying private conference calling services. While free conference calling services have launched recently, PhoneFusion's Meet Me Conferencing offers more than any other service.

When members of the military are shipped off for a tour of duty, they know it will be tough to get in touch with family and friends. With PhoneFusion, they have the ability to use the system as a calling card. Never worrying about racking up expensive collect calls to loved ones is important, and there are no long numbers to remember. PhoneFusion will also receive voicemail and faxes, holding them until they can get to a computer. Thanks to PhoneFusion, families can stay a little closer.

PhoneFusion creates loyal customers that realize the full potential of what we have to offer. When kids go away for the summer to camp, ordering a Virtual 800 number means never worrying about catching a call from your children. Kids love it because they never have to worry about carrying change for the payphone. The calls also cost far less than calling collect or even using a payphone.

A job as a salesperson means you're always on the road. Missed phone calls are a common occurrence with bad cell phone reception, missing hotel messages and being away from home. Keeping up with all the voicemails is a full time job all to itself. With PhoneFusion, customers never have to worry they are missing a phone call or a fax because they're not at their desks.

In a world run by technology, being limited to receiving faxes on a fax machine virtually outdated. PhoneFusion offers Fax to E-mail service like no other. While others may send a fax to one number, the number may ring busy. With PhoneFusion, there is never a busy signal which means you can receive your faxes anywhere, no matter what.