VOIP: How can YOU benefit from it?

VOIP offers great deal of features, flexibility, mobility, and what not, that you would not see in Traditional phone line service.  VOIP stands for Voice Over Internet Protocol, which now gives you the ability to make/receive phone calls with the assistance from your Internet connection.
The way people are taking advantage of VOIP is by getting more features, minutes, and what not for LESS MONEY.  On traditional phone line service, you won’t be seeing any new feature, or rather many features without the cost affecting it, but with VOIP service, they believe that you SHOULD have the option of using these features while saving money at the same time.  Traditional phone line service may charge you $49.99 per month for their service, but VOIP service will only charge you $19.99 per month, matching (if not more) your traditional phone line service provider’s deals.
Speaking of feature, as I have said before, VOIP offers many more features that you would never even see with traditional phone line service unless you are paying top dollar for them.  Features such as caller-id, call forwarding, call conferencing, voicemail (available in two options, phone or e-mail), call tracking, automated greeter and many more features.  Some of these features you will never get a chance to experience if you are with traditional phone line service, but if you are with VOIP, you get to experience it all.
With traditional phone line service, you don’t get many free minutes; you don’t get free long distance, expensive international calling rates, just pure depression and nightmare.  With VOIP, you get FREE local calls, FREE long distance calls and DIRT CHEAP international calling rates.  VOIP will also give you MORE minutes, and more of a reason to stick with VOIP service, nothing but good words coming out of your mouth.
VOIP service providers offer 3 types of VOIP services, cable company VOIP, hardware VOIP and software-based VOIP.  Cable Company VOIP being at the top, requiring the best Internet connection, hardware VOIP which only requires an ATA Adapter with a DSL connection, and software-based VOIP which is completely online, from controls to features, etc.