| VoIP is fast becoming a sound business opportunity | | | | The demand for this technology is getting higher as |
| not only for techies and internet service providers, but | | | | we speak, which makes it a fabulous business |
| also for college students and stay-at-home parents. | | | | opportunity. It has become a practicable and |
| What was once a sophisticated and expensive | | | | easier-to-understand telephony solution thanks to the |
| telecommunications protocol is now an easily | | | | development of Open Source and the growing |
| accessible and user friendly software that provides | | | | amounts of information available to subscribers of |
| great opportunities for resellers at an affordable cost. | | | | Voice over IP communities. So many businesses are |
| Voice over Internet Protocol is designed to send voice | | | | going into VoIP that it is predicted that the number of |
| transmissions over the Internet or through packet | | | | users in 2008 will be over 30 million. |
| switching. These real-time exchanges through the | | | | With this high number of possible clients, many VoIP |
| Internet is an alternative to traditional phones and is | | | | service providers are offering the opportunity to resell |
| especially useful for long distance calls because fees | | | | the hardware and software, accompanying licenses |
| are not charged by the distance of one phone system | | | | and additional values to would-be entrepreneurs all |
| to the other. | | | | over the world. At first available only in the US, |
| Calls made through this system can save you as | | | | selected European countries and Hong Kong, VoIP is |
| much as 66% on both long distance and local calls. | | | | now being distributed in Eastern Europe, South |
| Voice was being channeled through the Internet as | | | | America, China, India and the rest of Asia. |
| early as the 1970s, but development of the technology | | | | You don't need to be an advance techie to be able to |
| was slow and the first successful online real-time | | | | resell this to businesses. Simple software installation will |
| conversation through the Internet was only | | | | transfigure any computer into a VoIP-ready phone, or |
| implemented in the 1990s. It also took a while for VoIP | | | | you could choose to just have self-standing phones |
| to be available to more people because it was an | | | | connected to your system. |
| actual hardware that was quite costly. | | | | You will also receive a complete phone back end |
| These days, however, it is available as a software and | | | | system and full-time support and mentoring or |
| the bandwidth it is fast consuming is a good indication | | | | coaching from your service provider. This will be easy |
| of its booming popularity and the growing demand for | | | | to sell to any kind of business that relies on phone |
| Internet telephony. Voice over the internet provides an | | | | communication, as well as to homes, hotels, and |
| additional phone line to your home or at the office, | | | | apartments, and are especially useful for call centers |
| which will definitely lower the costs of long distance | | | | and telemarketing. |
| telecommunications. | | | | Have you ever considered offering it to your local |
| This technology also provides for free 3-way | | | | businesses and community? This is a tremendous |
| conference calling, automatic redial, caller ID and call | | | | business opportunity that can also benefit people in |
| forwarding, as well as nifty systematization with | | | | your area. It can also help reduce the costs to non |
| features available on the Internet, such as video calls, | | | | profit organization and charities. |
| customizable address book management, and easy | | | | If you have an entrepreneurial spirit and are serious |
| transfer of files and data to interested individuals or | | | | about building your own business you would be well |
| groups during the conversation. Call centers that use | | | | advised to take a serious look at Voip. For more |
| VoIP as their main telecommunications platform find | | | | information on starting your own Voice over IP reselling |
| the call queuing function quite useful. | | | | business select on of the links below. |