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VoIP: Communication Tool of Choice

VoIP has been causing quite a stir in the business of telecommunications for the last decade. Everybody is happy that VoIP is giving good service at much lower costs than either the regular land lines or mobile lines. They’ve mainly been an alternative for most but it looks like they may soon be a serious contender to be the tool of choice for cost-cutting businesses.

VoIP costs much less because they bypass landline and mobile phone systems plus calls between subscribers of the same service are free within the service. An example of this is Skype. Calls from Skype to Skype are free and SkypeOut calls to  either landline or mobile numbers are mere cents.

Gotalk, formerly known as Telecorp, offers packages where VoIP calls are at half the price of landline or mobile phone charges. This Australian company today launched a VoIP phone market half price “happy hour” for international calls. The promo is applied everyday between the hours of 6pm and 7pm.

Gotalk’s CEO Steve Picton says he thought that small to medium enterprises would be the first of the business community to switch to VoIP services since these smaller companies are usually interested in keeping their costs at a minimum. They are also usually tech savvy and prepared to try new technology. Their services include porting over original phone numbers and providing 1300 and 1800 numbers for businesses at lower costs.

There are more companies following suit. It will be no surprise to find more offices and homes with integrated handsets or VoIP phones in place of the standard models currently in use.