It’s time to get rid of your local phone service and replace it with digital phone service. Digital phone service, otherwise known as VoIP phone service, is phone service that works over a high speed internet connection instead of a regular phone line. By using your high speed internet connection, you can save hundreds, or thousands, of dollars per year for your home and/or business.
The savings comes from a lower cost of infrastructure for the VoIP phone company, and from a drastic cut in taxes. Regular land line phone companies have to maintain their phone lines and their switching stations, while VoIP companies only have to make sure that the home owner’s router is working correctly, and that their software is routing the calls correctly; the cost difference is astonomical. The tax savings come from the fact that the only tax that VoIP phone companies have to pay, is the 3% federal telecom tax. This is extremely lower than the average %15 to 20% in taxes paid by people who have land line service and are being taxes by their local cities, counties and states.
If you are interested in keeping your current telephone number, most voIP companies can now transfer your current local number to their control, so that you can continue using it. Or, if you want a number in another place, like New York City, or Los Angeles, then the VoIP company can hook you up with a local number from there. This works really great if you need to look like you’re in the big city, when you’re really out in Walla Walla, Washington, or Timbucktoo.
Another great thing about internet phone service is that it comes with free long distance calls to anyone in the US or Canada, and if you leave the country, you can plug in your router anywhere there is high speed internet service, and you will be able to make and recieve calls free of charge, just the same as if you were still in the United States.