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VoIP is providing choice to consumers looking for telephone options other than local phone monopolies. Since VoIP has been offered customers are choosing to leave traditional phone options for cheaper VOIP options. The only significant drawbacks appear to be that VoIP is dependant on an existing high speed internet connection and those connections are still less reliable than old land line phone lines. In addition, 911 service does not always work, though some VoIP providers to allow for 911 type service. VoIP providers also often include features that old local phone companies charged high fees for such as caller ID, call waiting, voice mail on the network, etc. VoIP can work with the phones customers already have, if the provider (Vonage for example) equipment allows it.

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  1. FCC - VOIP portal - This government site includes a great deal of informaiton on IP telephony including answers to frequently asked quesitons.
  2. Voice over IP - Wikipedia article. "IP Telephony also called Internet telephony, is the technology that makes it possible to have a telephone conversation where the signal is carried... (as) Internet Protocol (IP) packets, instead of over dedicated voice
  3. VoIP suffers identity crisis - Article from the Register June 2004.
  4. VOIP Plan Comparisons - Chart comparing various VOIP plans.
  5. An Internet Phone Revolution Is Upon Us - From Europe, "he spent 18 hours calling friends and clients in Canada, Italy, France and the United States." Normally that would cost hundreds of dollars, but all that talking cost him just $13. Washington Post, 18 July 2004.
  6. VOIP News -
   

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