Like Dante’s circles of hell, phone carrier services just keep spreading out. The next circle of charges is interstate. Interstate includes calls to a destina- tion outside the local calling area’s state but still inside the United States. Interstate is sometimes referred to as calling across state lines or state-to- state calling.
More often than not, interstate calls involve more than one carrier. For this reason, it is difficult for businesses (or consumers) to get any special deals based on their usage. If your carrier doesn’t have facilities covering all these types of calls from the point of origin to the calling destination, they lease services from other carriers. These costs are passed on to the carrier’s cus- tomers (that’s you).
How can VoIP help you with interstate charges? For consumers it is basically the same process as with intralata or intrastate costs. You pay a flat charge per month to a VoIP carrier. These carriers have different levels of service, but most permit you to make unlimited calls anywhere in the country for no additional cost.
If you’re a company that has a VoIP network spreading across multiple states, all the calling that goes on between the various locations is free of recurring interstate carrier service charges and regulatory fees.
International carrier service
Last but not least is the service category known as international. International service originates where you are and terminates in another country. This is the carrier service category that is ripest for elimination by VoIP networks because international carrier service is the most expensive per minute of the five regulated categories. Among corporations that do lots of international calling, it’s no surprise that a movement is building to deploy VoIP.
Remember our old friend regulation? Much of the cost of international calls comes in the form of increased regulatory fees. In fact, more recurring regula- tory costs are associated with international minutes than with any of the other four categories of regulated service.
Companies can run a VoIP network globally. They can run a VoIP network for domestic calls. Either of these network approaches can also have an attached VPN (virtual private network). The VPN can support telephony calls coming
in or going out through the Internet. These network options would eliminate most of the cost of international carrier services calling. Kind of makes you want to open a branch office in Paris or Beijing.
VPNs use the carrier transport capabilities of the global Internet to support mobile and global communications. VPNs started out supporting computer data and e-mail back in the mid-1990s. Since then, VoIP has added telephony to the list of VPN applications.
If your company doesn’t make many international calls, VoIP can still save you a barrel of money in all the other domestic-based rate categories.
More often than not, interstate calls involve more than one carrier. For this reason, it is difficult for businesses (or consumers) to get any special deals based on their usage. If your carrier doesn’t have facilities covering all these types of calls from the point of origin to the calling destination, they lease services from other carriers. These costs are passed on to the carrier’s cus- tomers (that’s you).
How can VoIP help you with interstate charges? For consumers it is basically the same process as with intralata or intrastate costs. You pay a flat charge per month to a VoIP carrier. These carriers have different levels of service, but most permit you to make unlimited calls anywhere in the country for no additional cost.
If you’re a company that has a VoIP network spreading across multiple states, all the calling that goes on between the various locations is free of recurring interstate carrier service charges and regulatory fees.
International carrier service
Last but not least is the service category known as international. International service originates where you are and terminates in another country. This is the carrier service category that is ripest for elimination by VoIP networks because international carrier service is the most expensive per minute of the five regulated categories. Among corporations that do lots of international calling, it’s no surprise that a movement is building to deploy VoIP.
Remember our old friend regulation? Much of the cost of international calls comes in the form of increased regulatory fees. In fact, more recurring regula- tory costs are associated with international minutes than with any of the other four categories of regulated service.
Companies can run a VoIP network globally. They can run a VoIP network for domestic calls. Either of these network approaches can also have an attached VPN (virtual private network). The VPN can support telephony calls coming
in or going out through the Internet. These network options would eliminate most of the cost of international carrier services calling. Kind of makes you want to open a branch office in Paris or Beijing.
VPNs use the carrier transport capabilities of the global Internet to support mobile and global communications. VPNs started out supporting computer data and e-mail back in the mid-1990s. Since then, VoIP has added telephony to the list of VPN applications.
If your company doesn’t make many international calls, VoIP can still save you a barrel of money in all the other domestic-based rate categories.
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