Written by It’s about time to toss your landline phone service provider and replace it with internet phone service. Digital telephone service, otherwise known as broadband telephone service, is telephone service that works over a high speed internet connection instead of a regular telephone line. By using your broadband connection, you can save $100′s or $1,000′s per year off your home and/or business telephone service .
The savings comes from a cheaper cost of equipement and employees for the broadband phone company , and from a huge reduction in taxes. Regular land-line telephone companies have to service and maintain their telephone lines and their switching stations, while voice over internet protocol companies only have to make sure that the business owner’s software and hardware is working correctly, and that their software is routing the phone calls in the right way ; the cost difference is huge . The tax savings come from the fact that the only tax that internet phone companies have to pay is the 3% federal telecom tax. This is quite a bit cheaper than the average fifteen to twenty percent in taxes paid by users who have land line service and are being taxes by their local governements .
If you are interested in keeping your current phone number, most voice over IP carriers can now move the number you have now, to your new digital provider , so that you can continue using it. Or, if you want a phone number in another place, like Boston, Detroit , or San Fransisco , then the internet provider can hook you up with a local number from there. This works really great if you want to act like you’re in the big city, when you’re really out in Athena, Oregon or some other place in the boonies .
Another great thing about voice over internet protocol telephone service is that it comes with free long distance telephone calls to anyone in the USA or Canada , and if you leave the US , you can just plug in your router anywhere there is broadband internet service, and you will be able to make and recieve telephone calls free of charge, just the same as if you were still in the US .
