After Reading the “How VoIP Works” article, it was interesting to learn about the technology itself and what still needs to be done to make VoIP practical enough for everyday phone usage. The article states that “perhaps the biggest draws to VoIP for the home users that are making the switch are price and flexibility”. I am somewhat sceptical that VoIP will have a large impact on home phone usage, due to the fact that current generations hardly or never use home phones. Businesses on the other hand, may levitate toward VoIP usage in order to cut costs, but I do not see this happening on a large scale until the VoIP network and devices become as reliable as traditional telephone networks. Although traditional cellphones that do not use VoIP may cost the user a decent amount of money,  they do not rely on an Internet connection, and can be used almost anywhere in the world.  Modern cellphone networks provide signals in areas where it would be less practical for VoIP users to connect a laptop to the Internet. Most people have grown to rely on their cellphone and network provider for reliable service that I do not foresee changing unless VoIP network signals are able to be projected at much larger radius. As long as I can remember having Internet in my home, there has always been times where the Internet connection will cut out or slow. As the article points out, with current technology VoIP users are susceptible to any problems your broadband connection faces. I would hate to be trying to use the phone on a day my Internet is acting up, and have important calls dropped or signal strength weaken when relying on VoIP. VoIP is a very innovative technology that if refined to provide equal service quality that users are currently provided by traditional phone networks, has the potential to change the way we communicate amongst each other. Digitizing analog audio signals and utilizing packet switching is efficient and less costly, but I do not see the VoIP taking over traditional analog networks until users can rely on a VoIP  service that performs at the level they currently are provided by major networks.  

 -Are you willing to utilize current VoIP technology for your phone usage? why or why not?

 -What do you consider to be the major pros and cons to VoIP enabled devices at this time?

-What improvements would you want to see made or questioned answered before adopting VoIP in your home or on your cellphone?