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| | The Minding Your Own Business Network is not currently active and cannot accept new posts | | A Little Help To Find You A VoIP Phone | Views: 616 | | Jul 11, 2005 12:37 am | | A Little Help To Find You A VoIP Phone | # | 
Michael Lemm | | Here's a collection of resources to help you learn what you REALLY need to know before you consider getting yourself a VoIP Phone for your business (or residence). Might help you make the best educated choice for YOU (if and then what).
CNet has an excellent extensive comparison and review of a number of different VOIP carriers. It's from a May 2004 article so it's obviously a bit outdated (e.g. Packet8 has E911 now.....Broadvox has implemented the "to come" features).....but still provides some good info and resources about BroadBand Phones.
http://reviews.cnet.com/Internet_Phones/4520-9140_7-5131535-1.html?tag=ont.poph
DSLreports.com has a fact filled table updated every week from reviews shared by that Forums members (Telcom industry pros/experts/users/management/sales).
http://www.dslreports.com/gbu
The folks at DSLreports.com are pretty picky & opinionated sometimes but it will give you some interesting insights. Note that providers are only listed if a review has been submitted. So a vendor you may be looking for may not be on the list.
They also have a pretty active VoIP discussion board where you can get unedited non-PC opinions, breaking news good and bad, and the opportunity to ask about use and installation.
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/voip
You should also look over the info at the FCC website (Federal Communications Commission). Besides the expected legal stuff you can see what the Feds think consumers should receive from VoIP vendors as well as some info on set-up and use.
http://fcc.gov/voip
I have a bunch of resources which will help you choose and understand VoIP phones at my blog BroadBand Nation. Be sure to click all the links and look over the article archive too for VoIP info as it's intermingled with other Broadband related subjects.
http://Broadband-Nation.blogspot.com
Personally I'm partial to Packet8.....especially for business use (VoIP video phone, Virtual Office). But that's just me.
God Bless,
Michael Lemm
FreedomFire Communications
http://ld.net/mscprez
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