Probably the most obvious is cheaper phone calls. By utilizing their existing data networks, businesses can now talk all over the world to field offices, clients, potential clients and anybody they need to talk to.

Actually most of the focus has been on the costs savings that VOIP has brought to businesses all over the world. And while those costs savings are no doubt enormous the business improvements and new revenue opportunities that have suddenly and dramatically been opened up far outweigh the savings that this wonderful new technology has brought about.

The fact that VOIP has made it extremely easy to communicate with remote or home workers has opened up an amazing number of brand new business and revenue generating possibilities. The fact that workers and consultants are no longer hindered by geographical reach or obstacles related to their location has forever changed the way business is done.

VOIP has suddenly made businesses that were previously not viable, extremely viable. Just to give one example, the Internet has created a huge new market for translation services. However the main problem has been the fact that low cost translation services were an impossible dream. The regular telephone contact with your translators based all over the world, on its' own meant a very high regular telephone bill. The VOIP technology has not only opened up the market for more translators and therefore more competitive rates, but it has also swiftly and powerfully wiped out the telephone charges while allowing for more frequent and regular telephone contact and consultation.

This is but one instance, there are numerous other examples.