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To: Real Man who wrote (70719)	4/28/2005 8:24:01 PM
From: William H Huebl	Respond to of 94695

Well, something like that. Actually, the analog (voice) is sampled many times a second and converted to a byte format. The bytes, as the sampling creates them, are assembled into packets which are sent through the internet. The packets then at the other end are taken apart and a digital to analog process occurs which renders the voice back to the way it was. Vonage says for each telephone "line" you have (I have both a voice and fax line), you take something like 90kb of bandwidth. An analog telephone only takes 2-4K bandwidth. So you DON'T get any efficiencies through the packet system. If it were all that good, you could do it over a standard phone line system - but they only work with broadband services. The only potential saving is that the human voice has much repetitive sound in it and the sampling process can reduce that duplication... but I don't see it with 90KB bandwidth requirements. Heck, it just another way of justifying a broadband connection to the family. And it can save you $500 - 1,000 a year.