Retail Ip Telephony

Residential IP Telephone service, is a way of making regular phone calls over a Broadband High Speed Internet connection instead of a regular telephone line.

You simply pick up your regular phone at home, dial a number and talk just like you would with a traditional phone service. It doesn't matter if the person you are calling has an IP phone service or a traditional phone service as this is all taken care of by your IP Telephone Service provider. The only additional piece of equipment that you need is an Analog Telephone Adaptor (often called ATA). This is supplied by your IP Telephone provider when you sign up for IP phone service and it allows you to make phone calls using your regular telephone.

One low monthly fee covers all of your phone calls. This is where we can help you. 

There are no unexplained taxes or regulatory fees. You know the ones on your current bill that nobody understands and your local phone provider can't explain. No taxes are charged for Internet based phone calls which is one reason why the service is so cheap.

Long distance and international calling are much cheaper. The Internet does not care whether you're calling someone who lives a block away or your cousin in Australia. This is why the IP Telephone service providers can give you such great rates for long distance and international calls.

To make a VoIP call the only additional piece of equipment that a typical setup will need is an Analog Telephone Adaptor (or ATA), which is usually supplied by the VoIP service provider when you sign up for service.

This allows you to make phone calls as normal, using your own standard phone. The ATA does the clever conversion of your analog voice to a digital signal that the Internet can understand. It then sends that signal on to your Broadband modem, which passes it over the Internet.

A typical residential VoIP solution looks like this:

Why is the computer in the picture - you still want your high speed Internet, right? You can surf the web while your daughter talks to her friends on the phone.

If you have more than one phone in your home the recommended connection is to use cordless telephones. The base station of the cordless telephone plugs directly into the VoIP ATA. The additional handsets can then be placed anywhere in your home, distributing the VoIP phone service to your required locations.

For homes with more than one computer simply connect a router to the ATA instead of the PC in the diagram above. Your computers then connect to the router. Note that many other connectivity options exist for this type of setup.