| VOIP, or voice over internet protocol, has already | | | | convenience and portability that they enjoy with a |
| changed the way that many Americans | | | | wireless internet connection in their homes. What |
| communicate with friends and loved ones. With | | | | this does is to give the user the same portability |
| VOIP it became possible to make seemingly | | | | with their VOIP service in their homes that they |
| regular phone calls - even long distance phone calls | | | | would have with a regular cordless phone. With a |
| that would have cost a fortune with regular | | | | WiFi VOIP phone, the user honestly won't even |
| phone services, for free. | | | | be able to notice a difference in a switch over |
| In today's world, with the current state of the | | | | from the phone that they had been using to |
| economy, everyone is looking for ways to cut | | | | make all of their home phone calls - in fact the |
| their costs of living and to save money in any | | | | only difference there will be will occur in the |
| way possible. Eliminating high phone bills all together | | | | absence of a bill from the phone company. |
| would be a tremendous way to save money, but | | | | The Future |
| there was one problem with using VOIP that | | | | As technology improves and further |
| severely limited its value in its original state - the | | | | advancements are made, there is almost no limit |
| user had to be close to a computer to use it. | | | | to what users will be able to accomplish with a |
| People today have grown accustomed to | | | | WiFi VOIP phone. As more and more cities begin |
| portability, almost everything that we | | | | to adopt city-wide wireless networks, which |
| communicate on these days is portable - cordless | | | | residents can pay a monthly fee to have access |
| phones and cell phone let us communicate with | | | | to, there is a strong potential that VOIP |
| friends and loved ones no matter where we are | | | | technology will allow users to all but replace their |
| or what we are doing, so it was almost like taking | | | | cell phones with VOIP phones. Users would pay |
| a step backward in terms of convenience in order | | | | the monthly fee to have access to the wireless |
| to save some money. | | | | network which would cover their regular internet |
| Saving the money on all phone calls is great, but | | | | access, but also give them city wide access to |
| are people really willing to give up the portability of | | | | the network on their portable VOIP phones. |
| their cordless phones and cell phones to save the | | | | What this would mean for end users who use |
| money - sure the VOIP would be good for calls if | | | | their cell phones for nothing more than connecting |
| you new you were going to be just sitting and | | | | with friends, family and associates is that they |
| chatting for a while, but not being able to move | | | | could effectively eliminate those cell phones and |
| about while conversing is a pretty big | | | | the bills that come along with them. So what we |
| inconvenience for saving some money. | | | | could see in the future of VOIP could conceivably |
| Enter the WiFi VOIP phone | | | | be a device that would very effectively allow end |
| Looking to advance the technology even further | | | | users to do away with their home phone service |
| and to make VOIP a serious threat as an | | | | as well as their cell phone service and allow them |
| alternative to traditional phone service, | | | | to do all of the connecting that they need to (local |
| manufacturers began to look in a similar direction | | | | and long distance, day and night) without spending |
| to wireless modems for VOIP to operate on. The | | | | a penny more than they would already be |
| WiFi VOIP phone will allow users the same | | | | spending for a wireless internet connection. |