Beyond the cost savings, VoIP can bring tremendous benefits to any business organization right out-of-the-box. Because it is an application based on the Internet, it has a certain flexibility and customizability that the traditional PSTN system simply cannot match. One example is conferencing. With a regular telephone system, this can be a complicated process that [...]
Mobile VoIP is one of the fastest-growing types of Internet traffic. This trend is unlikely to slow down in the future. If anything, we will see it accelerate. As more and more people begin to use VoIP on their smartphones, they will start to realize that you can drain your battery very quickly if you’re [...]
The traditional PSTN phone system has long been held hostage to geographical considerations. In fact, we have gotten used to thinking of people in other countries as “far away” even though from a practical standpoint you might be as unlikely to visit the person living in even the next state. A lot of this attitude [...]
One of the great things about a business hosted VoIP system is that you don’t have to set up any of the infrastructure by yourself. All of the heavy lifting and capital expenditure is done by the third-party service provider whose job it is to maintain and upgrade the VoIP network. However, your own Internet [...]
Setting up a telephone network requires a huge investment in time and money. You also ned significant political influence in order to obtain the contracts necessary to string your infrastructure all over the country. Because of this, it’s hardly surprising that there is barely any competition in the market today. There are a handful of [...]
A smoothly running business is always wary of changes to the system, and for good reason. When something is working properly, changing it is always a risk even when it costs more and is somewhat inefficient as compared to the alternatives. For a business, this could mean loss of revenue and opportunities. Which is why [...]
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act or the DMCA makes certain actions such as bypassing Digital security protections illegal. There are several exceptions to this rule and so far, unlocking one’s phone has always been one of them. The reason is simple – people own their own phones. They purchased it fair and square and so [...]
The mobile VoIP scene today is completely cluttered with a wide variety of applications that can neither inter communicate, nor are they even aware of each other’s existence. These are mostly targeted towards individual customers. Applications like WhatsApp, Viber, and even Facebook’s latest VoIP solutions are all based on locking in their userbase. In a [...]
A short while ago I had written about how the FCC was mulling over regulating the VoIP industry. I explained how there were two sides to the coin and that regulation could hinder the VoIP industry by imposing outdated rules meant for the legacy telecommunications system and at the same time benefit it by laying [...]
We’re seeing a new phase in the evolution of the Internet where governments are eager to take a bigger hand in its architecture and business model. In my opinion, this is a grave mistake and threatens one of the greatest inventions of mankind in the modern generation. We also saw a bid for a take [...]