VoIP Providers - Similarities and Differences

 There are more than 300 VoIP providers in Australia alone, and choosing what’s best for your company might take some long and hard thinking. The big reason is the lower costs compared against traditional phone service providers.

Further, these providers have almost identical features themselves as offered to their clients. Each one has marketing plans and other sales packages designed for their clients’ use. Choosing the one provider to fill up your present business certainly needs some hard decisions.

Here’s a short refresher on VoIP:

VoIP

This new spike in technology had your phone calls travel through the Internet. Instead of the traditional phone lines using undersea cables and satellite connections, your calls will pass through the Internet connection by your local service provider.

To simplify things further, each time you use your phone, your voice is converted into streams of data that travels over your broadband connection. On reaching their destinations, these data packets are reconverted into voice again so the other party can listen.

Voice and data

Back and forth conversation between parties would require many conversions to data and reconversion to voice again until the call is completed. If the person you are calling uses VoIP, that call will remain on the Internet.

If it is a conventional phone he/she is using, the call is carried as far as possible on the Internet until there is need to reconvert it to voice in a phone network. VoIP providers Australia have landline phones to allow others to call you.

Wired VoIP

This is the most popular among the systems using VoIP to replace your old phone line. The biggest benefit is the very low cost on rates and even installations.

(Having the same provider to friends and family means the calls you make and theirs shall be free.) This is different from the other free VoIP Internet services today like the popular Skype and others.

What are needed are the hardware, ATAs (analog telephone adapters), VoIP dedicated handsets and broadband modem that are VoIP-capable. You can also use your PC with an appropriate app.

Mobile VoIP

At first, this used to be computer-to-computer voice calls. When it went mobile, people use their carrier network or a Wi-Fi hotspot. Mobile phones use packet-based networks to connect calls, and they are perfect for use in mobile VoIP.

Smartphones can also be configured to allow VoIP call to be made and received, bypassing your carrier network.

Going naked

There are now a number of ISPs offering “naked DSL” services. These services have done away with the monthly rental that broadband users pay for the phone line that carries their services.

Most naked DSL plans come with a VoIP service, which you can replace your home phone with. The plan has a modest monthly payment scheme for the service, including a 4GB of data use.

Many VoIP providers Australia today use the wired VoIP service type in Australia and most of the world. The rates are low, the services are top-notch and the features can rival any of the best in telephony.