If you already have a high speed internet connection at home there is no reason why you shouldn’t save a bunch by switching to voip. In addition to cheaper home phone service, many voip phone service providers offer additional features for free that saves you extra. Here are the top 5 ways a voip service will save you money
- Unlimited Calls for a flat fee
Most Voip providers offer unlimited US & Canada calling plans at a very affordable price compared to regular phone companies.
- Free Faxing
Though not all voip providers offers faxing capability. But some do, like Phonepower. With PhonePower, you can send outbound faxes by hooking up a regular fax machine to the voip adapter. And that’s not all. PhonePower you can also receive inbound faxes with their fax enabled voicemail. And its free.
- Free Additional Line
With some providers, you can have an additional virtual line for free. This is like having two phone numbers. The way it works, you hook up two phones to the voip adapter, and you can make and receive calls from both the phones at the same time. And this feature is also free.
- Local Number Anywhere
If you have friends and family in City A and you live in City B, you can get a City A local number, which could also be your main phone number. That way all the calls your friends and family make to you, are local for them. So voip doesn’t only save you money, it can also save your friends and family money.
- International Calls – Cheap or Free
There is a rush now by the voip providers to offer free or cheap international calls. Vonage offers free calls to over 40 countries. Phonepower offers 60 minutes of free calling to 80 countries. Lingo offers free calls to 100 countries.
Phonepower voip service is one of the few voip providers to offer free faxing capability with their regular phone service plans. If you have a fax machine you can send faxes using PhonePower, just hook the fax machine to the phonepower voip adapter. With its ‘fax enabled voicemail service’, you receive incoming faxes.
And more importantly ITS FREE.
Though PhonePower doesn’t promote this feature well enough on their website, the faxing feature is there to be used. All its voip plans have the faxing feature enabled. And its free unlike other Voip providers who doesn’t offer free faxing with their phone service but sell a separate faxing plan in addition to the phone service.
Let’s look at both inbound and outbound faxing using PhonePower phone servcie.
Outbound Faxing:
- Cost: Free with the Phone Service
- All you need is a fax machine
- Troubleshooting Tips: If you are having difficulty sending faxes, try sending one page at at a time instead of sending a bunch of pages together.
Inbound Faxing:
- Cost: Free with the Phone Service.
- How it Works: Since its a free service, the way inbound faxing works is kind of archaic though. If you are expecting incoming faxes and when the phone rings don’t pick up the phone and let it go to the PhonePower voicemail. PhonePower will retrieve the fax and will send it to your email. But you must have the PhonePower voicemail enabled.
Remember, the faxing feature that PhonePower offers is not a business fax solution. Its meant for low volume home users users who don’t send/receive a lot of faxes. There are many online fax providers, like RingCentral, who offer cheap and excellent faxing solutions for small businesses. PhonePower fax for its phone subscribers is an just an extra feature which is very handy when you need to send or receive small number faxes. Please note that many other voip providers don’t offer this service for free.
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