VoIP Rates, Benefits – What If You Travel? I Have Great News For You
VoIP Rates, Benefits – What If You Travel? I Have Great News For You
By Adel Refai
One HUGE benefit and feature of Voice Over IP (Internet Phone Service) is the cost savings it offers international travelers. Oh, haven’t thought about this?
Let’s start by going over a very quick and basic explanation of how VoIP works in its most basic form. You receive an adaptor (small enough to fit in the palm of your hand from some providers), and you then plug your internet/Ethernet cable in one end, and your regular phone in the other. Plug and play, you’re ready to make a phone call.
Are you with me so far? Great! Now some key points to remember are that, unlike traditional phone service, your information (phone number, name, address, etc.) is stored in the adaptor – it is not assigned to your physical address. So if you take this adaptor and use it across the street or across the world, the phone number is still the same. When someone dials that number, it will ring where ever you are in the world. (This is assuming you have it plugged in!)
Many people don’t take notice to the benefits of being able to take your VoIP adaptor with you anywhere you go. Take a company like Globalinx (www.DelsTeam.com), they have the smallest adaptor that I am aware of. It fits in the palm of your hand, making it very convenient to take with you on trips.
Many business people use their cell phone overseas when they are on business. This tends to add up to very high phone bills. My uncle, for instance, has had a bill as high as $4,000 from a 2 week trip to China because he was constantly taking and making calls on his cell phone. (Yes, international roaming is a killer).
When he got VoIP for his home, he bought it on a promotion for $19.99 unlimited calling to US and Canada. When he went to China, he tossed the adaptor in his carry on and plugged it into the internet connection in his hotel room when he arrived. He plugged the hotel phone into it, and that was it. People were calling him up on his local New York number having no idea he was in China!
He took a potential $4,000 phone bill to zero, because this was essentially his home phone and he would have been paying the $19.99, anyway!
The convenience of being able to take it with you when you travel saves you the trouble of having to record extended absence greetings, sifting through voice mail when you get back, international roaming fees, to start. I’m sure at this point you can see the benefits and can think of a couple more yourself.
Again, that’s VoIP in its most basic form. There are also VoIP phone sets that come as a phone, VoIP adaptor, and router in one. There are also VoIP Video Phones. I won’t get into that here, but feel free to contact me for more info on those. You can imagine the benefits and luxury of being able to travel with those, as well!
Adel M Refai
Adel is a marketer, a marketing coach, and a fundraising consultant. He is involved with a network marketing company, as well as running a marketing training company – teaching others how to market their businesses for profit; teaching the importance of combining a system with the correct mindset for success.
For information on any of the above, please contact him directly.
You can reach Adel at Adel@DelsTeam.com or 609-947-4881
You can also visit [http://ww3.DelsTeam.com] to learn more about VoIP, and how to select a good VoIP provider.
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