The Major VOIP Companies In The Market Today
VoIP has certain benefits that even conventional telephone companies want to offer. These benefits include reduction of cost, portability, and easy access to a free number. Another benefit of VoIP is that free phone numbers from the United Kingdom and United States can be obtained. Phone calls to anyplace can be made to any other place as long as one is connected to the internet through the VoIP phone. This is the reason why today VoIP companies have become very popular. Not only does it provide services like phone calls but also video conferencing, and other telephony services that can be made through the speedy internet connection. VoIP companies are spread all over the world and the only connection with them that is required is the internet connection. With the help of the VoIP phone all contact and communication can be completed.
The most famous VoIP companies are: Vonage Vonage is one of the most popular VoIP companies. It laid its foundation in 2001 in Holmdel in New Jersey. They have more than 150 markers spread over Canada, USA, United Kingdom and Mexico. On more than one million active phone lines, Vonage completes around 35 million calls a week. It also employs a little less than 1500 people around the globe. Skype Skype was founded by Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, both of whom were co-developers of the most used peer to peer software KaZaA. It has offices in London, Luxembourg, and Tallinn. Skype offers to its consumers free download and allows them to make free calls around the globe using the peer to peer software. Adding services of a mobile phone like voicemail, and access to the world's hotspots, are charged if these services are personalized. Presently Skype needs a PC platform but it is trying to expand to reach mobile devices. Over 2 million consumers have downloaded the software offered by Skype. BroadVoice BroadVoice a VoIP company offers services all around the globe and is located in the United States. The company was founded in December 2003 in Billerica, MA. It now provides services to over 120 countries globally. The billing is made on a monthly basis. Twenty five features, both basic and advanced, are offered by BroadVoice. Consumers can receive and make calls anywhere as long as they have a speedy internet connection. Over 600 thousand users are connected with BroadVoice and monthly the strength is only increasing. SunRocket SunRocket is a VoIP service provider established in 2004 by Paul Erickson and Joyce Dorris. Before founding SunRocket the two were co-workers and executives at MCI for over 10 years. The company has offices in North America, Canada, and United States. It offers good voice quality and cheap rate calls and also the option to add another phone number without any extra charge. Nortel Nortel provides solutions for wireless and voice technologies and is recognized by the Fortune 500 companies and millions of consumers. From a multiservice network voice and data services can be delivered. Since the network is simplified, savings in cost and increase in revenues is possible. Asterisk Asterisk software is capable of running on a number of operating systems and supports VoIP using hardware that can operate with all standard telephony tools. The Session initiation Protocol (SIP) is supported by the Asterisk Community. H323 and MGCP are also supported by the company. It provides advanced features such as authentication, caller ID, voice traffic parameters etc. |
