Residential VoIP is, without a doubt, one of the most disruptive forces ever to hit the SOHO/residential voice market in the last decade. Residential VoIP providers like Vonage, Packet8 and Earthlink have managed to deliver a low cost and easy to install voice over internet service to the millions. A recent figure posted by RESEARCH AND MARKETS, The worlds largest online market research organization, states "...the number of VoIP subscribers worldwide will grow from 2.8 million in 2004 to 97 million in 2009".
Here's a list of some of the key features enjoyed by residential VoIP users:
- Web based portal
- Voicemail to email
- Call treatments - hunting, roll over, call forwarding
- 4 digit dialing among other users with same provider
- inexpensive international calling
