By Sharla Sikes

Most users choose VoIP over traditional telephone services due to price. The average bill for land line service is inflated with quite a few fees, surcharges and taxes. It’s hard to look at your bill and see that you’re paying nearly as much in fees as you are for the service itself—possibly more, if you have only basic service.

A few others chose VoIP for its features: Voice mail, conference calling, call forwarding, caller ID and many other features are built in as opposed to extra services with extra charges.

For businesses, there are other advantages.

So, really, it still boils down to cost. But what if you’re saving money in the wrong areas?

Speculation abounds as to the driving forces behind SunRocket’s demise.

Whether it was its management or something else, one factor could have been its network.

Margins on reselling less-than-cheap wholesale rates of telecom services aren’t too great. Resellers aren’t making a bundle, but especially for startups, it still costs less than building their own networks. Independent VoIP providers also must shoulder the burden of marketing and education expenses to reach their customers, and finally are at the mercy of every network operator that each call must travel through.

VoIP users can only wait and see what developing technologies and applications may bring. Mobile VoIP over 700 mhzWiFi and cellular phones, peer-to-peer calling, fiber optics …

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