Two main reasons:
- First, last weekend, I made an international phone call. By itself, it's not that cool, but what was cool was I connected using my VoIP phone to my mother who happens to be in rural India right now. Not only that, but she was travelling, so I had to connect to her cellular phone. While my mother and I were talking, we realized that we had a question for my father, who was in Anchorage, Alaska at that very moment. So I conferenced him in on his cellular phone. And I was in the middle--talking to them both from EchoDitto's New York office. Amazing. All for the low cost of 5 cents per minute.
- Second, I discovered that our office phone system had an amazing feature built into it already (clicking on the icon will connect you to me via telephone. Feel free to give me a ring):
I'm in love. Next stop: one of my co-workers, Tom Lee, is working on unveiling an Asterisk based interface for our podcasts. You'll be able to dial a phone number and listen to any of our audio content very soon. All courtesy of VoIP.
