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VoIP is known for offering a vast array of features with their monthly service. Many of those popular and useful calling features you pay for with the regular phone companies, are often free as part of monthly VoIP service plans. This list of VoIP features helps you to determine if VoIP service provider you are interest in offer the features best suited to you?

As soon as a call is answered, you can have that call transferred to another phone number of your choosing. When engaged in a phone call and another party attempts to call, you are notified by a visual or audible alert that another party is attempting to contact you, with the ability to switch between that part and the original party. This service when dialed offers the assistance of an operator or automated system to find a residential, business or government phone number at either free of charge or large fee.

The system displays the name and phone number of the person calling you on the screen of their VoIP phone, allowing you to choose whether you wish to answer the call or not. When either a call is made to your phone that is picked up or not, you can use the call return feature to obtain the phone number of that calling party. Allows calling to your local emergency handling dispatch center. Some VoIP service providers also offer E911, which enhances the amount of information transferred to the emergency service when a call is placed to 911 such as name and address.

You can hold conference calls by initiating a connection with a third person when engaged in a call with another party. This allows three people talk simultaneously. The ability to choose what area code you want your VoIP based service phone number to have. For example if you live in the 206 area code but wish to have a 453 area code, this feature increases your chances of being able to obtain a number within that area code. Lets you redirect incoming calls to your VoIP number to another number of either your choice all the time, or only when your phone does not answer or is engaged.

If you have subscribed to a VoIP service provider and have multiple phone lines, when one line does not answer a call or is engaged in a call, the call can be routed to the other lines. When placing a call, you can choose to block the other party from seeing your details on their caller ID display. In-network calls usually refers to a subscribers ability to call any other party that uses the same VoIP service provider, free of charge as part of their monthly service plan.



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