With hosted voip becoming a more popular choice for businesses globally, many individuals haven't yet made the choice to switch. This is mostly because they're happy with their current service and are either unaware of VoIP or don't know how it will benefit them. Here we are trying to give the viewer a both sided overview of the service.
Upsides of hosted voip systems
Retail customers value the low cost the most.
It's just much cheaper to make local calls, as VoIP provides that the info travels quickly and for free over the Internet.
This really becomes more apparent when you use VoIP for making International calls. Because the prices of calls made using regular systems are much much higher.
organizations, so they are the ones that get the biggest kick out of VoIP. So here is why companies from all over the world change to VoIP.For example, SIP forking can be used to ring many phones at once, direct inbound dialing (DID) is available.
And there is much more. As the system evolves, we're going to find a way to interconnect with other VoIP providers and break down the "islands" which we currently have.
If that happens voice calls can be for 0 cost.
Downsides of hosted voip provider
If you are a home user there are some downsides of VoIP as well. The main thing is that VoIP needs internet connection and of course electricity. In the event that disappears, your connection dies.
Secondly, VoIP doesn't have an automatic 911 emergency facility. Of course businesses normally don't need 911 services, and moreover they tend to have power up generators for such cases.