Sunday, May 29, 2005
VOIP Phone
To complement the many electronic forms of contact that OARBS has, we recently bought a much more traditional form of communication.
It's called a telephone. OARBS can now be reached at (416) 907 2549.
Unfortunately, OARBS can't do anything the old-fashioned way (really! It's in our purpose statement that we want to have an "innovative culture") so what seems like a telephone is really just an electronic arrow. Our phone is a VOIP phone, or voice-over-internet-protocol phone. What this means is that regardless of where we are, if we have a broadband internet connection, we can plug our phone in and receive and make calls as we normally would.
If I want to go to BC to work for a semester, I could cart the phone with me -- no extra configuration hassle, no extra cost -- and work from my BC base with a Toronto phone number. If Dan wanted to work out of Israel, he could - and he'd still be a local call for our Toronto clients.
Another inducement to use this technology is the fact that it's easy to get local access numbers for different regions, and to have them all route to the same phone. For $20 extra per month, you can be reached at numbers local to people in Toronto, Victoria, Winnipeg, Montreal and Halifax. Astonishingly cool.
Furthermore, since the service is digital by design, call tracking is easily performed.
And did I mention this is priced much more competitively than traditional phone service? For further reading, I suggest the Wikipedia article on VOIP.
It's called a telephone. OARBS can now be reached at (416) 907 2549.
Unfortunately, OARBS can't do anything the old-fashioned way (really! It's in our purpose statement that we want to have an "innovative culture") so what seems like a telephone is really just an electronic arrow. Our phone is a VOIP phone, or voice-over-internet-protocol phone. What this means is that regardless of where we are, if we have a broadband internet connection, we can plug our phone in and receive and make calls as we normally would.
If I want to go to BC to work for a semester, I could cart the phone with me -- no extra configuration hassle, no extra cost -- and work from my BC base with a Toronto phone number. If Dan wanted to work out of Israel, he could - and he'd still be a local call for our Toronto clients.
Another inducement to use this technology is the fact that it's easy to get local access numbers for different regions, and to have them all route to the same phone. For $20 extra per month, you can be reached at numbers local to people in Toronto, Victoria, Winnipeg, Montreal and Halifax. Astonishingly cool.
Furthermore, since the service is digital by design, call tracking is easily performed.
And did I mention this is priced much more competitively than traditional phone service? For further reading, I suggest the Wikipedia article on VOIP.
