Week 9 Reading

"How VoIP Works" by Robert Valdes gives us a relatively clear explanation about how Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) works.

VoIP seems like a pretty neat technology as it will make long distance calls free. It also has some advantages over regular phones, such as it being much more efficient than regular phones.

Though I'm skeptical about the phone service being connected to the Internet. With frequent glitches and outages with cable internet, that would mean the phone would not work. Not having the use of a phone in an emergency would not be good.

VoIP seems like it may take over the phone market within the next few years, but I think normal phones are fine as is.

1. Do you use VoIP? If yes, do you like it?

2. Why will this technology take over?

3. What do you think is the biggest upside of VoIP?