Before the end of the year, you could be making some of your telephone calls over the Internet instead of a phone line! It's the latest in the communications revolution and one that should result in significant cost savings.

Basically, you can make calls directly from your computer. Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) converts a telephone's voice signal into a digital signal that travels over the Internet and allows you to speak to anyone with a regular phone number. As VoIP technology evolves, voice, data and images will combine to provide personal TV-like connectivity with each other.

To use VoIP, you will need a broadband (high speed Internet) connection. Using an adaptor to connect to the Internet, you merely pick up the phone and dial the number as you're used to doing. However, VoIP users don't even need a telephone if they hook up a microphone to their computers and send their voices through their computers. Ask your children; they are doing it now via their playstations.

VoIP is best utilized by large companies, particularly those which operate from multiple locations. The technology should not be regarded as a replacement for traditional telephone service, but as an add-on which can:

• lower rates, both domestic and international;
• eliminate excess lines and their related costs, and
• simplify billing.

Best of all, with Internet access, VoIP allows you to communicate from anywhere in the world.

Despite all of its advantages, VoIP does have a downside. VoIP will not work during power outages; it does not connect with 911 emergency centers, and it may not offer white page listings.

Right now, the practicality for a business to use this service comes with a cost. Your phone system must be VoIP-enabled – most currently are not and the upgrade may not outweight the advantage. Most VoIP applications now in use are designed for intra-company calling. Multiple sites linked together for data services are using existing lines to send voice calls.

Our advice to you? Stay tuned.

To learn more about how to protect your phone system from hackers, contact us, call toll-free at 877-489-8186, or visit Cory on the web at www.corycommunications.com.

Talk is cheap and–if you believe the much-advertised promotional deals–it's getting cheaper all the time. Or is it?

Low-priced deals are often hard to resist. Often, however, providers are willing to undercut their competitors and lure customers with a combination of inexpensive voice services and more expensive data services.

When it comes to communications, there is a virtually limitless array of options available in today's marketplace. Many phone providers offer both local and long distance service, with promises of significantly reduced phone bills. However, if your company relies on email and high-speed internet access, you need additional services from other firms and every month, you get a bill from each company.

There is a way to cut through the confusion, cut costs, and–not incidentally–cut paperwork to a single monthly bill which cover multiple services. The solution is called “bundling.”

With bundling, you can combine voice and data services from many of the nation's top carriers, thereby covering all of your communications needs in one package deal. But how do you know you have the right menu of services that suits your company's specific needs?

The answer is simple–and it's free. The only thing you'll ‘spend' is less than an hour of time during which we will analyze your calling patterns, survey the services you are currently using and make recommendations to improve your service and your bottom line.

As representatives of more than 40 different providers, we are well-versed in the services they offer and can recommend the most cost-effective way for you to combine local, long distance calling, and high-speed Internet access and data lines. It's worth your call: 856.795.2223.

To learn more about these services, contact us, call toll-free at 877-489-8186, or visit Cory on the web at www.corycommunications.com.