by: Jake Zertosky
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If you are among the thousands of persons that have given up a land line in favor or a cell phone, after only one month where you go over on your minutes, you may wonder about the wisdom of your choice. Another alternative that is much less expensive than either the land line or the cell phone is the VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) telephone. Many times you will only pay a low monthly or even annual fee for the use of this phone that can be used to call any traditional land line or cellular phone within your calling plan. The best way to use VoIP phones is to have either a USB phone or a USB adaptor.

Some VoIP services are free, but most of the free services are limited to computer to computer communication. Both you and the recipient must be online and have microphone and speakers or you can communicate by typing messages back and forth. To speak with a person who is using a traditional telephone, you will want to choose a subscription service. For only a slightly higher fee, you will have your own phone number and be able to receive as well as make calls. If you have installed a USB phone, it will ring like any other phone.

If you choose the adaptor rather than the phone only, you can still use the existing phones in the home. Some adaptors allow consumers to choose which line, VoIP or Landline, to make the call.

Many of the plans sold by VoIP carriers allow unlimited calling in a region or country with no long distance charge. For example, some calling plans may include the U. S., Mexico and Canada all at the same price.

VoIP phones have become very popular with military personnel and their families as well as others who work overseas. These families are able to get phone with a local area code and exchange form their hometown so that friends and family can call them from with no long distance charge from the same area.

In a similar way, college students may have contact with family. Once again out of town callers will pay the normal long distance fee to call the hometown unless they too have unlimited long distance through VoIP.

Choosing the USB phone for calls through VoIP helps to give users the freedom of being away from a computer but still allows for listening for a phone call. The phone will ring just like a traditional phone and the computer does not even have to be on. These traditional feeling and looking phones often give users better quality.

If you are tired of counting minutes using either cell or traditional phones, try using a VoIP service for your calls. The price is low enough to try a few months before you drop other services.

Once you find that this is a quality service, you will often be able to drop enough minutes from cellular service to pay for the entire plan in one month's time to pay for an entire year of the VoIP plan.

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