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As far as technology goes VoIP is still seen as a relatively new technology. This being said it is a technology that is maturing very quickly as it is already making it's mark on the residential phone market. With the promise of ten cent calls and the massive savings on call costs that this offers people have been more that willing to give VoIP a chance and switch over to a VoIP phone service. This market has been relatively easy for VoIP service providers to get into as you will find that the average person feels that they pay far too much on calls.
To get yourself a residential VoIP phone service there is limited ammounts of hardware that you need to acquire, which makes it quite enticing to most people. The larger VoIP phone providers are selling calls for ten cents untimed to any landline in Australia, and at this cost the large telco's offering PSTN calls really cannot compete. What you will need to install to receive a VoIP phone service is as follows. Firstly you will need to have the internet, we recommend ADSL2 , this will give you the data transfer speed you will need to make sure your calls don't break up or drop. Secondly you will need a voice gateway, for this I would recommend a Billion VoIP router, which will also act as a wireless gateway meaning that you will have a wireless network. Lastly to complete your VoIP phone setup you will need a termination point or VoIP phone. This can be in the shape of a handset or conversely a softphone on your computer. Most people opt for a handset in a residential VoIP setup. Lastly you will need to source VoIP provision from a VoIP provider. They terminate your calls working in much the same way as a telstra or Optus. As you can see, setting up a basic VoIP system is relatively pain free and inexpensive and this is the reason why more and more people are choosing to hook up a residential VoIP phone system which allows them to take advantage of very cheap calls. The business VoIP market has converted far less people, but has also come a great distance since it's infancy. When it comes to business people are far more interested in quality and functionality rather than purely price and this is why this market has remained relatively untouched till recently. With the arrival of quality business grade VoIP providers more and more businesses are becoming curious in VoIP and enquiring into business VoIP phone systems. Business market analysist are predicticing that this will become even more of a trend as confidence in VoIP grows with more and more people believing that VoIP can deliver the kind of quality that is required of a business VoIP phone system. |