| Date: 12/09/2006 
Nowadays, VoIP is becoming, under our own eyes, a technology of multiple advantages and of very few, if none at all, disadvantages. VoIP stands as the abbreviated name for Voice over Internet Protocol. It means, more precisely, that VoIP grants people the possibility to practically make telephone calls while not making use of their local, regular telephone services. Instead, through VoIP, they get to benefit from being connected to the Internet. However, not every type of connection will function properly with VoIP. What you need in order to exploit VoIP in the shape of a high quality technology is a highspeed Internet connection. In other words, VoIP requires a broadband Internet connection, since dialup services are too slow.
Rest assured that your internet telephony service provider will maintain you up to date with the necessity of being linked to broadband Internet. Why does VoIP need a highspeed network to be functional? Simply because dialup cannot keep up with conveying voices as qualitatively as broadband can. It means that speed is extremely important for VoIP to transfer voices in a conversation with as little changes as possible, if none at all. And VoIP, through broadband Internet, is able to do that by working with digital signals - into which your voice is divided so as to be capable to travel over the Internet. The signals switch back at the other end of the call.