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I've had VOIP service for almost 3 years now. I wouldn't dream of going back to a land line.
Oh and as for loss of power. That's what I have a UPS for. ]]>Sep 24th 2006 5:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/http://ClearDigitalVoice.com. It works with any Internet provider and is cheap, with a ton of great features.

I use my cellphone if the power ever goes out. Which is rare and usually during non-business hours.]]>Feb 25th 2008 9:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/Sep 23rd 2006 5:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/Sep 24th 2006 12:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/Sep 23rd 2006 5:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/Sep 23rd 2006 5:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/Sep 24th 2006 12:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/Sep 23rd 2006 6:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/Sep 23rd 2006 5:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/Sep 23rd 2006 6:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/Point is, if the power goes out in your neighborhood, your landline will still work.]]>Sep 23rd 2006 6:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/
anyone know different ?

in any event, my co pays for my broadband - BT - and you need a BT line (£10/ month) just to get it.

]]>Sep 24th 2006 4:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/Sep 23rd 2006 6:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/
I prefer Skype to regular land line phone calls, but I would not replace my land line system with VoIP at the moment.]]>Sep 23rd 2006 7:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/Sep 23rd 2006 7:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/Sep 23rd 2006 7:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/
Dimitri: You apparently have not heard of the countless number of businesses who have switched over to using T1 lines for their digital phone service. It is not Skype, but it is IP telephony. A single T1 line providing 24 digital voice lines as opposed to having 24 individual phone lines installed.]]>Sep 23rd 2006 8:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/Sep 23rd 2006 9:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/>Dimitri: You apparently have not heard of the countless number
>of businesses who have switched over to using T1 lines for their
>digital phone service

Yes, I have. ISDN (and T1 lines as you added) are in an entirely different class of reliability than
DSL or cable connections: they are dedicated connections.

But, dedicated T1 (or even fractional T1) lines are many hundreds of dollars. Not financially viable for most businesses.

My earlier comments still stand: for mission-critical business calls, relying on VoIP over a DSL or cable connection is foolish.

Dimitri]]>Sep 24th 2006 9:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/
i mean, it's a phone call. if it drops, then you can just dial it again, and recap what was said in the last 20 seconds. confernce calls don't even drop when the host falls out, so voip phones, or a cell phone with a decent connection, are perfectly good enough for any call.


]]>Sep 23rd 2006 9:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/>What is a mission critical phone call anyways?

ALL business calls are mission-critical.

Dimitri]]>Sep 24th 2006 9:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/Sep 24th 2006 10:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/Sep 23rd 2006 9:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/Sep 23rd 2006 10:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/Sep 23rd 2006 11:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/Sep 24th 2006 2:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/
It's amazing how the taxes on my landline bill were higher than what I'm now paying per month using Skype. ]]>Sep 24th 2006 3:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/Sep 24th 2006 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/Sep 24th 2006 1:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/However, I recently recorded me calling an airline lost and found department. After listening to the conversation a few times, I think much of the misunderstanding during the conversation (which is quite funny) is caused by the slight delay to begin a sentence. In other words, some software, to save bandwidth, will wait until you start to speak before it starts transmitting, resulting in occasionly loss of the first part of a syllable. If this is a syllable that starts with a hard short consonant, that consonant may be clipped off, changing the meaning of the word. So a person may say "B", but the listener may hear "E".
I may be full of it on this, I really don't know how the VOIP system works. Could this be possible? Listen to this recording and see if you think this could be part of the problem:
http://www.sailingtexas.com/chumorunitedlostfound.html]]>Sep 24th 2006 6:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/
An important question for carriers:
If not voice quality, what are the attributes that customers value on VoIP systems? (The cop-out answer is lower prices.)

More at:
http://www.ondisruption.com/my_weblog/2006/09/voip_call_quali.html]]>Sep 25th 2006 10:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/23/cable-voip-calls-clearer-than-landlines/Jan 18th 2007 6:15PM