VoIP Providers
VoIP providers come in several
different varieties. VoIP providers include free VoIP,
business, consumer, cable and satellite service providers.
The VoIP providers listed below are just some of the
many companies currently offering services. Not all
VoIP providers are the same, so you'll need to find
out which services work well for you for your particular
needs. We've compiled a top
list of VoIP Service Providers for your perusal.
Free VoIP Providers
Skype is perhaps the most well-known
of the VoIP service providers. Skype offers free peer-to-peer
calling with other Skype software users and low-cost
PC to landline or cellphone calls as well. Earthlink
also offers free online calling and became the first
major ISP to do so. The service is based on Session
Initiation Protocol (SIP), and is available to all 1.2
million EarthLink High Speed access subscribers. See
our free VoIP page for more
details.
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Business
VoIP Providers
Cisco
Systems, the biggest name in networking and hardware
systems also is one of the leading business VoIP
providers as well. Asterisk is a complete Open
Source PBX in software for Linux. Packet8 offers
a hosted virtual PBX system for businesses along
with one residential package as well. Alcatel
provides communications solutions to telecommunication
carriers, Internet service providers and enterprises
for delivery of voice, data and video applications
to their customers or employees.
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Nortell delivers fully-featured,
carrier-grade telephony, data, and multimedia services
over multi-service packet networks. Siemens offers its
customers triple-play services such as voice, data and
images, nationwide via DSL broadband. See our business
VoIP page for more details.
Residential VoIP Providers
Vonage is the current industry
leader when it comes to residential VoIP providers.
Standard features include: Voicemail, CallerID, Call
Forwarding, Call Transfer, 3 Way Calling, Call Waiting
and Speed Dialing. Packet8 offers an unlimited residential
calling plan with one monthly price and unlimited calls
within the U. S. and Canada. Lingo is another big name
that offers a low cost, unlimited monthly plan to the
U. S., Canada, and 17 countries in Western Europe. The
quality ratings, for Lingo, however are not a high as
those for Packet8. See our
residential VoIP page for more details.
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VoIP Providers
Time Warner is perhaps the biggest
name in cable VoIP providers with 10,000 subscribers
being added every day. Cablevision is also one of the
hot marketers of cable VoIP and is enrolling 1,000 subscribers
per day in its program. Cox Communications, which is
the nation's 11th largest telecommunications company,
offering standard cable phone service has now jumped
into the VoIP cable provider arena. Cable giant Comcast
has also jumped into the fray and is currently in 20
markets. See our cable VoIP
page for more details.
Satellite VoIP Providers
Net2Phone has joined forces with
Hughes Electronics to offer satellite VoIP services
especially to remote and underserved areas around the
globe, including phone-less areas of Africa. Vonage
has also joined forces with satellite broadband service
provider SkyFrames to go after a similar market. Multiemedia
is currently servicing Australia, the Asia-Pacific region
and the Middle-East. See our satellite
VoIP page for more details.
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