Well, I’ve got my internet phone service running now. For the week or so I’ve been using it, it seems to be of good quality. Just as good as a normal phone service. The only drawback to this is that I have to connect my phone at the location of my gateway, which of course is connected to wherever my broadband connection comes from. Luckily for us, we have a cordless phone and live in a condo, so not much trouble; but I can imagine how this would be a bit of a problem for people who live in a house. You would need to get many cordless phones to cover a house of 3 floors.
VoIP will really change the way the world communicates. I remember when I was young, people who could travel around the world (fortunately, my dad was one at the time), would be able to make a lot of money by bringing goods from one country to another. Right now, everybody’s on the internet and it is truly a global market, there’s not much barriers to communication anymore. When VoIP takes over in a decade or so, it will make this world look so different.
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