In the late 1990s Qwest Communications, Level 3 Communications and several other VoIP suppliers saw the future of VoIP and were busy laying the foundation for the VoIP revolution that would follow. These companies laid tens of thousands of miles of buried cables that formed the skeleton for a new, faster and cheaper way to deliver telephone services. More and more companies joined in to improve sound quality, connections, switches and new telephone equipment until we arrived at today’s highly sophisticated VoIP system that delivers high quality and less expensive phone service to millions of companies and individuals.
VoIP over the past 10 years or so has changed the entire nature of the telephone industry as it pertains to using land-lines. Now VoIP is moving quickly into the mobile phone industry. In the not too distant future new mobile phones will enable you to make VoIP phone calls whenever you are in a WIFI hotspot. Your phone will be able to use its normal wireless network and to make free phone calls when in a WIFI area just as computers now use these hotspots to link to the Internet. Many of the new mobile phones already have this capability built-in.
Another major area to watch for VoIP applications is in the gaming area. People are connected all over the world through their interactive games and major players like Sony are looking to VoIP to make their games more challenging to millions of gamers all over the globe.
New video phones using VoIP are going to allow for more and more business people and individual family members to communicate face-to-face. These video phones are here now and it won’t be long till you have one sitting on your desk. You can check them out right now at 5Linx company which is a major VoIP service provider.
VoIP continues to grow into areas that didn’t even exist 5 years ago. I think you’ll see it playing a bigger and bigger part in all our communications as we move into the future of telecommunications.
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