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The phone which can be considered the great-grandfather of VoIP has come a long way since the days of Alexander Graham Bell. The electric device designed to transmit speech came to life from Bell's desire to improve the telegraph. In the mid 1870's the first phone was born when Bell proved that different tones would vary the strength of a current in a phone wire. In order to make our phone dreams come true a working transmitter with a casing capable of various electronic currents and a receiver which reproduced variations in audible forms was created. That transmitter also known as a telephone or more often referred to as a phone is the amazing predecessor of VoIP.

In the late 1870's Bell patented the electromagnetic phone that incorporated magnets and a call bell. Many developments took place that gave us excellent phones that we enjoyed in the 1930’s including getting rid of the old bell box and a battery. Each subscribing party was assigned a line which was controlled in a central location instead of by local batteries. Then in the 1960’s phones became much more efficient with the addition of the touch tone phone.

Gradually we have evolved in the direction of digital telephony also known as VoIP which has greatly increased the scope and quality of phone service such as Intalk. Analog phone networks were first tailored in the early 60’s by improving networks with T1 systems. Then technology advancements and transmission methods like synchronous optical networking and fiber optic advanced digital telephony. Making VoIP phone calls which is also known as digital telephony greatly increased the signals on one transmission making room for additional signals on the same line cost much less. Many analog carriers use digital signals even though you might think you are calling on a regular old Bell telephone.

VoIP or IP telephony calls utilize a broadband connection and transmit signals as data packets. IP telephony offer low cost connections even for mobile phones via WiFi hotspots. VoIP can also be used within a private network to make calls within a business.

Near the close of 2006 there were almost 4 billion fixed line and mobile phone subscribers worldwide.

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