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Useful VOIP Tips:
1-Contact your VOIP provider to ensure
that your home address is registered for its 911 service.
2-Although it may seem obvious, make sure your high-speed internet connection is
working properly. A non-existent VOIP connection is commonly related to an
internet connection that is not working properly rather than your VOIP provider.
3-It is important to place your VOIP working in low-traffic areas. If the
ethernet or power cords for your cable/dsl modem are in a high traffic area, or
an area susceptible to young children or pets, you run the risk of regularly
losing your phone connection.
VoIP Is it Legal?
by:
Lisa Kaye
I have been in telecom
for 12 years and for 12 years I have spoken to my mom at least once a week if
not more. She always asks me how is work? Are you still doing that little
telephone thing? About six months ago she called me up because she had heard
something that may be of interest to me on her talk radio program earlier that
morning. She did not want to forget to ask me about it so she wrote it down, (my
mom will not call before 5 because she still believes the calling rates go down
in half after 5), but she can’t seem to find the paper she just had in her
hands- she asked if I could hold a minute. After I hear the rotary phone hit the
counter and a bunch papers rustling- she gets back on the phone with her
revelation. She is going to spell it for me and she wants to know if I am ready
to write it down.
They say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over
again….expecting a different result. So here I am insane and armed with a pen
she starts to spell it for me V-O-I-P. VoIP….. My mom wants to know if I have
ever heard of it. I respond with a yes mom that is what I do. She responds with
an OK I just wanted to make sure you knew about this new way of calling. They
say it is really going to become popular. On that note I shifted the
conversation.
Time passed and two weeks ago I called my mom and I got the where have you been?
Working mom on a product for small businesses that already have an existing
phone system and want to use VoIP. I proceeded with explaining how it will save
companies a lot of money on their monthly phone bills and in some cases up to
70%. She responds with “Well Lisa, VoIP- now is what you are doing legal? I was
stunned and amused so I responded with well mom I guess I will be find out soon
enough if it is legal. It is not like I live a life of a criminal, but as far as
my parents and their age group 60-80 if it is new and innovative……it is probably
illegal or a scam.
Senior Citizens are the fastest growing population in America accessing the
internet today. They also have the most discretionary income. The VoIP providers
are really missing out on this market by not educating seniors about VoIP and
the amount of savings they can save a month or annually on the phone service.
So as it stands now my mom thinks I am a thug, but the good news is she sent me
a clipping from one of her magazines with a little note attached that read
Google have you heard of them?
About The Author
Lisa Kaye has been in telecommunications for 12 years. She's the V.P. of
Marketing and Agent Development for
http://www.telecomarena.com.
