| The days of expensive hotel phone bills are over, | | | | use their personal VoIP service for only the cost of |
| with the rise of more and more hotels offering | | | | the Internet access. |
| broadband Internet services. With the broadband | | | | Many VoIP providers allow users to take their service |
| connection, users can use Voice over Internet | | | | with them, wherever they travel. Skype offers a |
| Protocol or VoIP to stay connected with their family. | | | | free VoIP that can be used directly with a users |
| This is especially good news to oversea travelers. | | | | computer and broadband Internet connection, |
| Some hotels do have a charge to access the | | | | therefore allowing it to be accessed virtually |
| Internet. | | | | anywhere and anytime. No additional equipment is |
| The Residence Inn in New Haven Conneticutt has | | | | needed, however Skype users can only call Skype |
| become one of the first hotels to offer free VoIP | | | | customers for free. Calling regular phone numbers |
| service to their customers. Adam Dubroff of | | | | result in a charge. |
| TravelGlue, the company that wired the Residence | | | | Vonage allows customers to travel with their phone |
| Inn for VoIP, told CNN. "Until now, hotel guests have | | | | adapter that plugs into their computer and broadband |
| paid a premium for the convenience of the long | | | | Internet, giving them the same Internet phone |
| distance service, which was appropriate when there | | | | service that they receive at home. Additional charges |
| were no cell phones and it really was a convenience." | | | | may incur from Vonage based on the monthly plan |
| Dubroff continued, "But as technology has developed, | | | | the user currently is enrolled in. |
| it has become an old business model and the prices | | | | "Communication was always an issue with expats |
| charged have been rendered exorbitant. Now, | | | | working overseas. Satellite telephones have helped |
| because of VoIP, there is an opportunity to provide | | | | me to keep in touch with my family but the per |
| guests with a phone service for free and I think this | | | | minute cost prohibited long or chatty calls," says |
| will be the norm in the future." | | | | Thomas Drown, a geologist working in Ulaanbaatar, |
| The Wynn in Las Vegas has taken the VoIP | | | | Mongolia. "Now, I can talk to anyone in the world |
| technology to the fullest extreme offering | | | | who has either a phone or an Internet connection. |
| reservations, hotel information and more right from a | | | | Now I can call my mom in Canada from my western |
| touch screen VoIP phone. Plus when a user accesses | | | | Mongolia ger field office any time of the day or night |
| the broadband Internet the Wynn offers, they can | | | | for just eight cents a minute. |