New ways of communication: The VoIP technology

Technology is in a continuous change, it evolvesEvery call shop customer can take advantage of a
every day. With the help of the Internet, variousfree online billing system, which detects all the booths
new and innovating technologies are now accessiblethat have made calls in the last three hours. The call
to everyone and provide new solutions to the oldin progress and the calls that have been completed
problems. One of them is the desire to communicatecan be accessed just by clicking on the booth link
more, cheaper and over longer distances than usual.and the "end-of-day" cash accounting is assisted by
The solution for this need is the VoIP technologydaily reports. For this system there are available two
which replaces the traditional telephone landlines. Thislevels of access, which means that only the
technology works best on a high-speed connectionadministrator can configure the system, and the day
to the Internet. The dial-up connection is too slow forto day billing system procedures can only be
a real-time voice or data transfer, so it is notattended by the staff in the call shop. The billing
recommended. The program used in this type ofprocedure is completely self-configuring. You just
communication resembles a telephone keypad andneed to sign up, set the currency that your callers will
works in the same way. It is calledbe charged and in the end set the rates that you
‘Softphone’, which means ‘Softwarewish to charge your customers. For the special call
Phone’.shop rates, you must visit the VoIP provider’s
The main advantage of this brilliant technology is itswebsite.
low costs. Every VoIP provider has its own rates,You can use VoIP applications with a simple
but generally, all rates are lower than most of themicrophone and computer speakers, but many VoIP
traditional telecommunication systems. The VoIPmanufacturers are designing phones which are
technology transforms analog signals into digital dataspecially created to work with this technology, called
packets, which are then compressed and sent overSIP phones. If you don’t have a SIP-phone
the Internet at high speed. When the data reachesyou can use the softphone which can be found on
the destination, it goes through a reverse process ofthe VoIP provider’s website and which
decompression and conversion to an analog signal. Itperfectly emulates a standalone VoIP SIP-phone and
Even if it seems complicated, it is a real-time process,runs on any windows operating system. It is free,
and that means there will be no delay between theeasy to install and to use.
two speakers. There are two ways of calling throughThrough this new technology, people from all over
VoIP: PC to PC or PC to regular phone. The firstthe world can talk and change data almost for free,
alternative is completely free, while the second isno matter the distance between them. Another
charged. The rates of any VoIP provider areadvantage is the great mobility offered by this
displayed on its website, generally at a section calledservice.
‘call shop rates’.