Save Hundreds Of Dollars With VoIP: Before the big Telecoms take over! Jun 9, 2005 – By Jimson Lee
I've recently become an advocate with VoIP for cost savings. I already have a
good broadband connection and didn't have land line as I was using a cell as
my main number. So the choice was easy.
I signed up with a local Vancouver company called Peopleline.net.
So, here are my top reasons to switch, whether it's for your home, a 2nd home
line, or your small business, before it's too late!
1. Low monthly cost.
2. No setup cost, no contract.
3. Low long-distance rates (2.5 cents to the USA, 3 cents to Holland).
4. Many of the same features cost less - i.e., call waiting, caller id, call
forwarding, voice mail, etc.
5. FREE calling between two VoIP devices (peer to peer or point to point),
provided devices are members of the same provider's network.
6. Make a free local call to your home area from your laptop (soft phone)
anywhere in the world (adapter installed on the DMZ).
7. Make a free local call to your home area from your adapter & analog
phone anywhere in the world.
8. Make a free local call from your cell or regular phone to another area
code where the adapter is installed (with the same area code as you) and a
land line is installed (requires Grandstream 488 adapter).
9. For business customers, they have the added advantages of saving on trunk
lines, extending a virtual PBX to other office locations (free calling
between extensions), saving on expensive legacy PBX hardware upgrades or new
PBX systems, save on expensive key system/PBX phones.
10. Gives smaller businesses benefits of a PBX - i.e., auto-attendant, caller
navigation, extensions, call hunt, information extensions, etc., for
affordable prices.
11. There is also convenience of email/voice/fax mail to access voice/fax
messages for free using Email.
All in all, we haven't had a glitch except one day where our ISP was down for
an hour. But all the calls were directed to the voice mail during that time.
Jimson Lee is an IT security consultant based in Vancouver, BC and can be
reached at jimson.lee@mail.mcgill.ca but does not wish to give out his VoIP
phone number!
