Today's New York Times has an interesting story on the impact VoIP services have had on the traditional phone companies. Basically, VoIP services like Vonage and Packet8 are beginning to force the big phone companies to rethink their service offerings and, most importantly, bring their prices down.
As the story says, it'll be a while before the VoIP companies will have phone companies cowering in fear, but they are offering more services to keep their customers instead of seeing them walk away without a fight. The arrogance of the big phone companies is beginning to wear off, and true competition will emerge for voice services and eventually the consumer will win out.
Of course, if you think you're going to get all of these services for next to nothing, you would be wrong. However, if things keep progressing as they are now, you should be able to get more for your money, which is not a bad goal to have.
1. Yes, thats true that big companies has started to rethink about the services they offer but there are many companies too which offer enhanced quality Voip services in comparison to Vonage and Packet8. One of the leading Voip service provider, http://www.iCallGlobe.com offer various voip phone services including A to Z call termination, wholesale carrier services, Voip reseller programs and managed switch partitioning service.
Posted at 2:53AM on Apr 16th 2008 by Kristen