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by Michael Williams, Mic

Making calls to your friends and family through your normal telephone is becoming obsolete. It is now the norm for people to talk to their friends and family with instant messaging services such as Yahoo, AOL, and MSN. Another version of using your computer to communicate is using VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol).

What exactly is VoIp and how do you use it?

VoIp is a class of hardware and software that allows people to use the Internet for making telephone calls. One of the many advantages of this type of service is no surcharge. The amount you pay for this service is included in your monthly Internet fees.

AOL is coming out with a new "Total Talk VoIP" that is to replace AOL Internet Phone. The difference being that with AOL Internet Phone it was available exclusively for those who were members of AOL. With Total Talk VoIP, broadband users throughout American and Canada will enjoy the convenience offered by AOL. Some of the services offered with total Talk VoIP include:
* E911
* Three-way calling
* Call and voicemail management

AOL prides itself in providing many features that their competitors do not offer. Users of AOL's VoIP services can be alerted to new voice messages that will be sent directly to their cell phones, if they so choose. Along with that convenience, the VoIP service allows for several extensions without requiring different phone numbers. This is a great value if you have more than one person in your home receiving calls or for the family with teenagers. AOL is also working on offering a new section to the Total Talk that allows not only PC-to-PC calling capability but also PC-to-Phone and Phone-to-PC.

AOL has three different types of plans available that include unlimited local and regional calls, unlimited calls in the United States and Canada, and unlimited calls in the United States and Canada along with low International rates. Before deciding on the plans carefully review what they have to offer. There may be penalties if you subscribe to the service and then decide it is not what you expect and cancel. Look to see if there are any installation or set-up fees. When you select the plan, AOL will send you everything you need to convert your telephone number over to using your computer for making and receiving calls. If you should have any complications in setting up the Total Talk VoIP AOL service, you can call their technical services department 24-hours a day and they will be happy to assist you through the setup and connection process.

For instance, an internet caf? needs one softphone per terminal. Softphones can be obtained free and USB phones can be bought for as little as 15 Euros each. A rather more comfortable variant involves a VoIP compliant desktop telephone for each internet terminal, e.g. the Starphone from TerraSip which can be ordered online in the TerraSip Shop for just 59 Euros. In that case it is not even necessary to buy extra cables, because the Starphone is equipped with two RJ45 ports and can be connected between the router and hub using the cable supplied.

Following this, the internet caf? should be registered as a Call Caf? on the TerraSip website (Anmerkung: Tippfehler im Original: Seite (statt Site)), whereupon it is allotted a protected area which can be configured as a completely new business area in 3 steps. The application is surprisingly easy to use, so a reasonably experienced administrator can add the whole functionality of Call Caf? to a normal internet caf? in less than one hour. TerraSip requires a call credit of 100 ? to be paid, representing a minimum turnover at especially reasonable bulk rates. However, the configuration and operation of this intelligent and user-friendly software is free of charge.

A demonstration can be viewed on the TerraSip website using this link: http://terrasip.com/index.php?seite=internetcafe. Interested customers can avail themselves of TerraSip's brand new Free Call Button to speak to a TerraSip expert free of charge and open a new business area online with his or her help.

To sum up: An internet caf? with 10 terminals can open up a completely new line of business for an investment between 150 and 700 euros. Without the need to employ any more staff, an increase in turnover of several thousand euros is quite possible. Caf? operators can also expect to welcome many new customers. However, the software also represents a very attractive option for hotels, pensions, or even clinics, small and medium businesses as well as call shops and call centres.

Information about the provider TerraSip
TerraSip is a young, internationally oriented company operating throughout the globe. It offers free internet telephony for TerraSip community members using international SIP standards. Calls into other networks are charged at especially reasonable rates, whereby users can take advantage of 56 country-specific special prices, so that the majority can further optimise their telephone costs. Membership of the TerraSip community is free.
TerraSip's main orientation at present is in the direction of mobile internet telephony: Voice over WLAN or VoWLAN for short. TerraSip recently launched a pilot project in Germany and Austria together with two WiFi network providers with the aim of testing mobile internet telephony in the German speaking region.

TerraSip S.A.,
Avenida Espana 70,
29680 Estepona,
Spain
Tel: +34 636982416
E-Mail: pr@terrasip.com
Web: www.terrasip.com

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