| A broadband phone is a phone that uses the Internet | | | | infrastructure. It uses the already existing Internet |
| to make calls over Internet Protocol (IP). You can use | | | | communication system, which is being used with great |
| your old telephone for calling, but your calls are routed | | | | success. Great advances are being made in the |
| through IP using broadband Internet access. This is | | | | improvement of the Internet communication systems |
| done by using a device called a digital adapter, which | | | | as new technologies are being introduced. In view of |
| connects the broadband modem with your telephone. | | | | this it can be safely assumed that the new broadband |
| This connection gives access to the broadband phone | | | | telephone technology, which rides piggyback on the |
| line. The primary function of the digital adapter is to | | | | Internet, will advance accordingly and provide improved |
| unravel and rearrange the digital voice data that it | | | | and cheaper services to individual and corporate |
| obtains through the Internet and convert it into intelligible | | | | business users. Quite possibly the interconnecting digital |
| messages like the ones you receive through your | | | | adapter would altogether be eliminated. You may get |
| ordinary non-digital telephone. The international call | | | | digital telephones that can be plugged directly into the |
| costs are much cheaper than those made over the | | | | USB ports on PCs and can send and receive calls |
| conventional telephones or cell phones. The process of | | | | digitally. |
| transmission of messages is quite efficient. | | | | It appears that as broadband grows in popularity, VoIP |
| The transmission of voice over IP, or "VoIP" for short, | | | | will revolutionize the telecommunication system as |
| has a bright future in making long distance calls. The | | | | never before, even more than cell phones have done. |
| main plus point is that the transmission of voice | | | | As a result, most call charges should eventually |
| messages does not require any new platform or | | | | become dirt-cheap. |