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VoIP Advanced
Features |
Many of the features that you ordinarily pay your telephone company for
usually come for free with VoIP and include:
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3 way Calling |
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Call Forwarding |
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Call Return |
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Call Waiting |
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Call Transfer |
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Block Caller I.D. |
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Do Not Disturb (automatically sends calls to your voicemail) |
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Call Blocking (blocks the ability for international calls to be
made) |
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One of the more interesting features of VoIP are Virtual
Numbers. These allow you to have multiple inbound telephone access
numbers in different cities, something that is useful for businesses who
want to create a ‘Virtual Presence’ in multiple locations, or to provide
friends and family with a local number to reach you and thereby avoid
long distance toll charges for them.
Virtual Numbers can be routed to any number that you specify, for
example you can have access numbers in Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami and
Houston all routing through to your number in New York and no-one ever
knows the difference.
| VoIP Physical Portability |
Your Voip Adapter or VoIP phone is specially coded with
your VoIP phone number which allows you to take it with you when you
travel, and instantly turn a phone anywhere in the world (with a high
speed Internet connection) into your local phone.
If you are visiting Hong Kong for example, with a U.S. 561 prefix
phone number, then people in the U.S. dial your 561 number and the
networks finds you in Hong Kong and connects the call.
In summary, number portability means that:
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Your number isn’t tied to your home or office anymore |
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You can take it with you if you permanently move |
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You can take it with you to your weekend/vacation home |
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You can take it overseas, and still be called and make calls |
Priority Alert allows you to make your phone ring with a
different ring based on your pre-defined criteria. Use this service if
you want to know when a specific person calls such as your manager or
spouse.
| VoIP Selective Call
Forwarding |
Selective Call Forwarding allows you to forward specific
calls matching your pre-defined criteria to a different phone number.
Use this service to forward calls from your manager, a family member, or
an important customer to your cell phone, alternate business phone, or
home phone.
Set up a group of callers to whom certain rules always
apply. For example, you can block your calling I.D. to everyone you call
except members of the Group, or use Selective Call Forward for the
entire Group so that calls from them are always routed to your alternate
phone number like a cell phone.
Some Providers offer you the ability to receive
voicemail messages as an email attachment and play them back as a sound
file through your computer via any of the popular media players. You can
even forward the email with the attachment to another person and they
can hear the call too, or save them to your PC’s hard drive for future
reference.
As you can see, the plan that you select depends on the
features that you’re looking for and the savings you will achieve
dependent on the make-up of your phone bill for local, national and
international calls. Click here for
more about choosing a plan.
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