One of the biggest downsides of VoIP as a telephone option has been the need to be literally at your computer before you could make the telephone calls. One of the newest advances in the industry is the introduction of VoIP phones that basically work like WiFi, meaning you have more options for connections and more places where you can use that connection.
VoIP stands for Voice over Internet Protocol and it is a very basic marriage of the personal computer and the telephone that is now used for communication. The biggest advantage is the cost because you can make all the phone calls you want through a connection that very much resembles your Internet connection for you computer. No matter who you call, where you call or how long you talk, those calls don’t cost anything above your monthly connection fees.
Like the Internet, there have been some changes over the course of the VoIP as an emerging industry. Those early Internet providers typically had some pretty serious limitations. Some charged based on how long you were online, meaning that you had to seriously limit your connection time. Others charged minimum monthly fees with additional charges if you ran...