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What VoIP Is Actually Good For

Posted by timothy on from the not-brain-surgery dept.

gManZboy writes "One of the things that's bothered me about VoIP is that other than so-so quality phone service at a cheap price, what's the big deal? I mean so you can now deliver voice mail into e-mail because it's all IP packets, does that mean I should ditch my telecom investment. Well in part 3 of Queue's special report on VoIP (here's part 1, part 2) two authors from Bell Labs help explain actually useful things you might do. Now I get it."

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  1. Tech support call, enhanced with VOIP by d3ity · · Score: 5, Funny

    Telco company: Hello, welcome to genericom, how may i assist you. Me: My pho....pho....ne.... is laa...a..aaaa....a..g.... Telco company: Whats that sir, I cant quite understand you. Me: My god....amn....phon...is....lagg... Telco Company: Sir, your going to have to speak more clearly...

  2. Question marks by Kinkify · · Score: 5, Funny

    does that mean I should ditch my telecom investment.

    Don't you think question marks are just the worst.

    I mean really, who actually bothers anymore.

  3. Re:In use? by tim_mathews · · Score: 5, Funny
    Could you imagine you're enjoying a 45 days holiday in Europe (or in New Zealand, which is really cool!)

    No. I'm still working on what it would be like to have free weekends.

  4. Re:Isn't it obvious? yes it is! by Tmack · · Score: 5, Funny
    Yeh!! and then once you have that VoIP modem line up, setup two more, since that new bandwidth can handle more lines. Then do the same over them, dial in with line-sharing multilink ppp protocol to another VoIP provider, and do it again! You should have a DS3 worth of bandwidth pumping through that already over-shared T1 in no time!!

    Tm

    /obvious

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