| A home phone line has become a virtual necessity | | | | features that you rely on every day to keep |
| in the past couple of decades, and the phone | | | | yourself safe from harassing phone calls like those |
| companies know it. How else could they get away | | | | of telemarketers, as well as lots of more |
| with jacking up phone rates the way we've seen | | | | sophisticated features that simply aren't possible |
| them do over the past few years. Now, even a | | | | with the old fashioned technology used by the |
| bare bones, no frills phone line costs almost twice | | | | local phone company in . |
| as much as it did a decade ago! But now there's a | | | | The more common place calling features are all of |
| way to fight back thanks to a new type of | | | | the tried and true ones like voice mail, call waiting, |
| technology called Voice Over Internet Protocol (or | | | | and of course the incredibly useful caller ID. The |
| VOIP) and a company that offers it in a user | | | | other features all center around a special Web |
| friendly and value oriented service called | | | | based control center and its called Member |
| SunRocket. | | | | Account Manager. Using the Member Account |
| Voice Over Internet Protocol provides the perfect | | | | Manager, you'll have an incredible degree of |
| alternative to conventional phone companies in a | | | | control over how you make and receive phone |
| number of ways. The secret is in VOIP's ability to | | | | calls. |
| stream telephone conversations back and forth | | | | One of the best examples of the power of the |
| over the Internet, thereby bypassing the normal | | | | Member Account Manager is its ability to let you |
| charges associated with make phone calls over | | | | filter out unwanted phone calls. There are two |
| long distances. This alone keeps your money out | | | | main ways that you can do this. The most |
| of the phone company's pockets, but this type of | | | | obvious and all encompassing way is to block any |
| technology may make it possible to get rid of | | | | calls from numbers that don't provide caller ID |
| your association with the phone company | | | | data. The other way is to block phone calls from |
| completely. That's because VOIP relies on high | | | | specific numbers that you don't want calling you. |
| speed Internet connections to transmit telephone | | | | In either case, the callers will find a busy signal and |
| conversations rather than conventional phone lines. | | | | you won't be disturbed at all. |
| The two types of high speed Internet | | | | You can also set up your account to forward calls |
| connections most often used for this are DSL and | | | | to your number to up to three different phone |
| broadband cable. If you happen to have | | | | numbers simultaneously so that all three phones |
| broadband cable Internet access, you'll be able to | | | | will ring at the same time until one of them is |
| completely rid your life of the phone company | | | | picked up. You can also get multiple phone |
| forever! | | | | numbers that go to the same phone, but with |
| Let's look at some advantages that conventional | | | | different ring tones. You can even forward calls |
| phone companies can't give to you. For instance, | | | | to your mobile phone. |
| you'll have access to tons of different calling | | | | This is the end of your search for the best VOIP |
| features at no extra charge. These are the calling | | | | Provider. |