Voip Business Opportunity - Riding the Wave Of The Future

VoIP is fast becoming a sound business opportunity not only for techies and internet service providers, but also for college students and stay-at-home parents. What was once a sophisticated and expensive telecommunications protocol is now an easily accessible and user friendly software that provides great opportunities for resellers at an affordable cost.

Voice over Internet Protocol is designed to send voice transmissions over the Internet or through packet switching. These real-time exchanges through the Internet is an alternative to traditional phones and is especially useful for long distance calls because fees are not charged by the distance of one phone system to the other.

Calls made through this system can save you as much as 66% on both long distance and local calls. Voice was being channeled through the Internet as early as the 1970s, but development of the technology was slow and the first successful online real-time conversation through the Internet was only implemented in the 1990s. It also took a while for VoIP to be available to more people because it was an actual hardware that was quite costly.

These days, however, it is available as a software and the bandwidth it is fast consuming is a good indication of its booming popularity and the growing demand for Internet telephony. Voice over the internet provides an additional phone line to your home or at the office, which will definitely lower the costs of long distance telecommunications.

This technology also provides for free 3-way conference calling, automatic redial, caller ID and call forwarding, as well as nifty systematization with features available on the Internet, such as video calls, customizable address book management, and easy transfer of files and data to interested individuals or groups during the conversation. Call centers that use VoIP as their main telecommunications platform find the call queuing function quite useful.

The demand for this technology is getting higher as we speak, which makes it a fabulous business opportunity. It has become a practicable and easier-to-understand telephony solution thanks to the development of Open Source and the growing amounts of information available to subscribers of Voice over IP communities. So many businesses are going into VoIP that it is predicted that the number of users in 2008 will be over 30 million.

With this high number of possible clients, many VoIP service providers are offering the opportunity to resell the hardware and software, accompanying licenses and additional values to would-be entrepreneurs all over the world. At first available only in the US, selected European countries and Hong Kong, VoIP is now being distributed in Eastern Europe, South America, China, India and the rest of Asia.

You don't need to be an advance techie to be able to resell this to businesses. Simple software installation will transfigure any computer into a VoIP-ready phone, or you could choose to just have self-standing phones connected to your system.

You will also receive a complete phone back end system and full-time support and mentoring or coaching from your service provider. This will be easy to sell to any kind of business that relies on phone communication, as well as to homes, hotels, and apartments, and are especially useful for call centers and telemarketing.

Have you ever considered offering it to your local businesses and community? This is a tremendous business opportunity that can also benefit people in your area. It can also help reduce the costs to non profit organization and charities.

If you have an entrepreneurial spirit and are serious about building your own business you would be well advised to take a serious look at Voip. For more information on starting your own Voice over IP reselling business select on of the links below.

Voip Business Opportunity - Riding the Wave Of The Future
By Benjamin Wise