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Q I have a small company and I'm looking for Looking for

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 an inexpensive (not cheap) way to handle my telephone system. I know that there are companies that let you use the Web for phone services, but I remember that the quality of the calls weren't always that great. Have there been any improvements? What should I look for?

C. Martin

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Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the
 

A Internet telephony Another term for IP telephony and VoIP. In the late 1990s, some people made a distinction between Internet Telephony and VoIP: Internet telephony referred to voice over the public Internet, while VoIP referred to voice over private IP networks.  (also known as VoIP, or voice over IP) has come a long way from the early days of poor transmission quality, echoes, and dropped connections. Today, you can find a plethora plethora /pleth·o·ra/ (pleth´ah-rah)
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 of companies that provide services to businesses and consumers at relatively reasonable rates (sometimes free), allowing you to make receive, and manage calls and faxes via the Internet.

As a small business, you have several options from companies such as Net 2 Phone (www.net2phone.com). Packet8 (www.packet8.net), Dialpad (www.dialpad.com), and Go2Call (www.go2call.com). There is also the free VoIP service Skype (www.skype.com), from the company that developed Kazaa One of the important things to keep in mind when choosing a service is your call volume (how many calls you make and how many you receive) in relation to the cost of the plan that you choose. As with any plan, whether landline-based wireless or Web-based, going over could cost you.

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Title Annotation:Cyberwise; Internet telephony
Author:Donaldson, Sonya A.
Publication:Black Enterprise
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Date:Aug 1, 2004
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