Everything You Need to Know About Charges (VOIP)

In This topic
^ Getting access to the network
^ Understanding the costs of service categories
^ Surviving your monthly bills
^ Analyzing savings with a case study
In the old days of making calls with a telephone (remember, just last year), you paid for a phone line. Your company may have had one network to handle dozens or even hundreds of phone lines coming into your business and another network to handle computers. Now companies can converge both networks into one. By using VoIP over a private data network, your company can bypass the older, more expensive way of using the public circuit-switched network.
Although some local telephone lines may be necessary, you can reduce or eliminate the cost of your older telephony infrastructure, the total volume of call minutes per month, line-related regulatory fees and taxes, and therefore most if not all of your total phone bill. When was the last time your phone bill was less than you thought it would be?
This topic describes the bottom-line savings of using VoIP. You see how traditional calling methods hit you with charges for everything under the sun and how calling with VoIP can change this for the better. Along the way, I explain the terminology used by traditional phone companies. By topic’s end, you’ll know about all the charges billed by traditional phone companies — as well as which of those charges your conversion to VoIP can eliminate or drastically reduce.