Lagos — AS the Ikeja branch of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) warms-up for its regular technical meeting, focusing on the Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), with theme: 'VOIP: Face to Face with The next revolution in Telecommunicating,' the recent report of Balancing Act's Africa, seems to give credence to its over-whelming deployment in the sub-Saharan Africa.
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), otherwise known as Internet Telephony involves the transmission of telephone calls over a data network like the Internet. Thus, VoIP sends voice, fax and other information over the Internet, rather than through the Public Switch Telephone Network (PSTN) or regular telephone network.
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