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Why Everyone Should Be Embracing VOIP
Voice over IP (VOIP) is one of the greatest things to come out of the internet. Although not a new concept, since scientists realised its potential back in the 70s, it has really only become popular within the last half a decade. There are a number of reasons why it didn’t come about earlier, the main being slow web speeds. Before broadband, using VOIP services was fairly temperamental, often calls were jittery, laggy and poor quality. Thankfully broadband and particularly wireless internet has allowed VOIP to flourish globally.
When talking about VOIP many people assume you are talking about Skype. Certainly Skype is one of the most popular and well known applications, recently reporting over 100 million downloads, however it is by far not the only VOIP client around. In fact there are numerous VOIP clients, all with different quirks, features and compatibilities.
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Two Way Radio – Stay in Touch – Whenever – Wherever
Planning to go on a trekking mission, or a picnic, or skiing? Or just want to stay in touch with friends and that special someone in the college campus? Now you have a cheaper alternative than the costly mobile phones and telephones. And this alternative is known as Two Way Radio. Two Way Radios are fun, cost effective and have a lot of features to offer to the users.
They are ideal for people who are going out in a group, especially a large group where constant communication between team members is a necessity. With a coverage range of usually 2000m and above, it is a great way to stay in touch and that too at low expenses. Imagine, you go out on a hiking trip and you get left behind due to some reason. With two way radio, you can get in touch with any member of the group instantly and exchange each others’ whereabouts.
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VOIP – Different Perspectives
VOIP or voice over internet protocol has become the buzzword for the online community, the techno geeks and in these days for the lay man also with subscriptions growing in leaps and bounds since the past two years. In the earlier days of VOIP, the idea was predominantly associated with the voice chat option found in popular messengers provided by yahoo and MSN. The main bottleneck at those times where the slow and sporadic speed of internet which at times fully jeopardized the basic necessity of continuity of a conversation.
Calling to local phones and mobiles were perceived in the earlier days as too much complicated and for most in industry considered it as a superfluous option. The scene changed so rapidly , thanks to the latest developments in technology and up-gradation of infrastructure that has truly revolutionized how we perceive VOIP. The rapid changes in the economies of asian countries like India and China, their opening up of the communication sector to private sector and foreign investment also spearheaded the VOIP trend into uncharted territory surpassing geographical, linguistic and cultural barriers with rates reduced to cents from dollars for international calls. The real potential of the VOIP system lies in its free and unlimited minutes that makes even the most staunch supporter of the traditional technologies vulnerable. Contrary to the traditional modes of communication, there is no prescribed hours for the free call facility and a customer can make calls to selected destinations absolutely free of charge at any point of time and as long as he wants to talk.
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