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Article Excerpt
Byline: Michael Desmond
Stefan von Buren jumped into a telephony revolution by chance. When he moved his engineering consulting business from his home to an office last year, he surfed the Web for long-distance service. What popped up was a new breed of phone service that works over the Internet. Called Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, the service taps cable or DSL broadband Internet connections to make and receive calls.
For von Buren, the technology was a perfect fit. His total monthly phone bill from VoIP service Vonage comes to about $30. When he was using Verizon for local service and AT&T for long distance, von Buren was spending more than $95 per month. He is so sold on VoIP, he has switched his home service as well.
You don't have to be an engineer to use VoIP. To install, simply plug a telephony adapter, which comes with the service, into a cable or DSL modem. Next, plug your phone into a jack on the adapter, and after two minutes or less (during which...
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