Voice over IP (VoIP) is using the internet to deliver traditional phone service. VoIP is sometimes referred as Internet Phone Service, Broadband Telephone and Voice over Broadband.

There are many different kinds of VoIP available, but netPhoneInfo will focus on the Voice over IP that replaces your normal phone service. There are many reasons why a person would switch to VoIP. The primary reason is VoIP saves money.

The easiest way to think of Voip is to consider toll roads or public highways. The internet is a public highway. Tollroads are the private networks provided by phone companies. VoIP uses the public Internet as the backbone network. Most people considering VoIP already have a broadband or high speed Internet connection. The monthly Internet Service Provider (ISP) bill helps pay for the internet infrastructure. By using VoIP or an Internet Phone, you are using the internet as your phone network. This allows you to use a public network versus a privately owned network owned by a telephone company. The use of the public Internet network allows VoIP costs to be lower than traditional phone service.

A secondary reason to chose VoIP is the features. Most services come with every available service, Caller ID, Call Waiting, Call Forwarding, 3 Way Calling, VoiceMail to name a few. Traditional phone services will want to charge $2 to $3 dollars per extra service. With VoIP phone services all these services are available.

The really neat features that the VoIP providers are offering include items like virtual internet phone numbers. For a monthly charge, you can create local numbers in area of the United States. This allows people within the phone service area to call you without long distance charges. This is a great feature to stay in contact with family, children off to college, friends or establish a local business presence.

The cost savings of internet phone service for most family's will exceed $200 dollars per year. If you use moderate amount of long distance, normal phone services like Caller ID, Call Waiting then the savings using Voice over IP can be as high as $400 per year. Check out VoIP and internet phone providers and begin to save today.