This will mean that you will have a choice in phone service to your home. BTW, if the phone companies drag their feet, the cable television providers, who may already have a fiber cable coming into your TV set, can step in. Sure, the quality of the digitial phone will not be as high as what you are getting now. However, before we get to that type of choice, more equipment will have to be in place first. The good news is that the equipment is available for purchase and the prices are dropping.
More vendors keep entering the marketplace.
It is only a matter of time before we see tanagable results. The Internet continues to change at a breath-taking pace. Telephony over the Net for most of us with home computers should be more widespread within the next several years. These are exciting times. This is the 81st of a series of elementary articles designed for surfing the Internet.