Voice Over iP is currently the up and coming telecommunications trend in the local and long distance markets in the United States. With the huge glut of bandwidth currently available, do to the build up of internet related infrastructure in the late 90's before the big dot com crash, companies can now route their local and long distance telephone traffic over the internet for next to nothing.
As more and more people are opting for high-speed internet service instead of a second telephone line and dial up internet service, cable companies are pushing voice over ip to these customers as a way to increase their revenue stream without much of an increase in infrastructure costs. This page list current and past news stories dealing with the emergence of voice over iP, broadband telephone service and companies manufacturing internet phone equipment. Archived VOIP Articles