VoIP services differ with different service providers. Some VoIP providers have excellent quality services while others just provide an average phone service to their customers. Each service provider offers different service features and voice quality. There are many different factors that determine voice and type of service features offered. Let us have a look at how these factors affect your phone service.
Congestion problems
Increasing number of customers is a happy thing for the service providers. They just want to add more and more customers for earning more revenues. Few phone services consider the problems that arise when too many customers are using a phone service simultaneously. Congestion is caused when the infrastructure is not able to take the peak load of all the customers on a network. Congestion on VoIP because of overload makes the switches and routers hold the traffic until they are made available with the capacity needed to run normally again.
Bandwidth issues
Internet speed is also very important. Fast internet connection is a relative term and one should not consider this term enough to determine that a VoIP service will run on your internet connection or not. Axvoice and other good phone service providers let the customers know which type of internet connection will be comfortably able to run their service. Streaming videos or using internet for purposes that require heavy bandwidth can also affect the voice quality and may also result in interruptions.
Compression techniques
Compression technique is used to overcome the network related problems. Through compression more data can be exchanged even with limited capacity of the network to handle. This not only depends on the company that is using the equipment as different companies have different expertise in handling these kinds of situations but it is also dependent on the equipment that is actually used to achieve that. A company that has concern for the customers’ takes up these kinds of matters seriously and tries to correct them as much as possible. However, a greedy VoIP provider won’t really bother about the possible problems that the customers are having.
Shared connection problems
Amongst the many other problems, one issue that often deteriorates the quality of the phone service is the connection problems. Overloading on the network can also be a result of more connection sharing. This problem is particularly visible in businesses which not only use internet connection for using their business phone service but they also use the same internet connection to send and receive other types of data as well. This can also be a problem for the residential phone users who want to share large size files and do video streaming along with the talking on their phone.
E911 regulations
Among many other features, one key aspect is that the VoIP service should be able to provide your location in case of an emergency. Different states have different laws on that. Some states make it mandatory for the service provider to provide you with the E911 services while others don’t. So you should also check with your phone service if you will be provided the emergency handling service or not.
