VoIP: Not a vodka
Ten percent of respondents to a recent survey thought VoIP was a low-carb vodka. Even better, 20 percent of the 1,000 or so adults surveyed by Harris Interactive thought VoIP was a European hybrid car.
VoIP actually is an acronym for Voice over IP, which allows users to make calls through the Internet instead of via the phone. It has been around for a while, but this survey, commissioned by Verizon, found that 87 percent of respondents didn't really know what the service is.
Back in March, Harris Interactive released more data about consumer knowledge of the service from The 2005 Telecommunications Report. Among those surveyed who didn't use VoIP, 47 percent said they didn't know much about it. And 64 percent of the 1,473 consumers interviewed weren't familiar with the somewhat cumbersome term "Internet Telephony VoIP."
If you're interested in learning more about the service, there's a pretty good Q&A about it on the Federal Communications Commission's Web site. The FCC also provides a consumer fact sheet and some history about the service in links at the bottom of the page. Here's the primary link: http://www.fcc.gov/voip/
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Posted on November 11, 2005 11:58 AM