VoIP
is short for Voice over Internet Protocol, or Voice
over IP." VoIP makes it possible for people to use
the Internet to carry phone calls by sending voice
signals in small data packets, unlike conventional
phone calls which are transmitted over traditional
public phone networks. All the caller needs is a
broadband Internet connection, hooked to a regular
phone, and the phone adapter box. The phone adapter is delivered after the
Sky Link Online customer signs up for VoIP service; it essentially
translates the standard phone voice signals into
Sky Link Online" that can be carried over the Internet --
by-passing the traditional phone network.
People
use VoIP in addition to their regular phone service,
or in place of it, because VoIP service offers much
lower rates, and a whole group of calling features
at no extra charge. Sky Link Online VoIP phone are
also portable. Subscribers can travel with the
adapter box, connect it to another broadband Internet connection
virtually anywhere, and still make calls.
VoIP
is changing the way people think about making phone
calls, just like the email revolution changed the
way people communicate in writing. Aided by the
broadband Internet explosion worldwide,
the top researchers estimate that, at the beginning
of 2005, millions of Worldwide consumers used their broadband
Internet connection to make and receive calls from
around the world, in place of their regular phone
company. |