Voice Over Wireless Fidelity

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What Does Voice Over Wireless Fidelity Mean?

Voice over wireless fidelity (VoWi-Fi) is any hardware or software that facilitates data exchange via the Internet. It is a popular networking technology that uses radio waves for wireless and Internet connections.

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This term is also known as wireless Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP).

Techopedia Explains Voice Over Wireless Fidelity

VoIP enables voice data packet transmission via IP protocol, as compared to the traditional public switched telephone networks. VoIP’s key benefit is that voice calls do not impact or increase user Internet fees.

VoWi-Fi technology sparked the production of VoWi-Fi phones, which are wireless mobile phones operating within networks and hotspots, such as those used with Vonage.

VoWi-Fi phones feature ease of use, low bandwidth requirements, less expensive or free long distance communication and no roaming charges.

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Margaret is an award-winning writer and educator known for her ability to explain complex technical topics to a non-technical business audience. Over the past twenty years, her IT definitions have been published by Que in an encyclopedia of technology terms and cited in articles in the New York Times, Time Magazine, USA Today, ZDNet, PC Magazine, and Discovery Magazine. She joined Techopedia in 2011. Margaret’s idea of ​​a fun day is to help IT and business professionals to learn to speak each other’s highly specialized languages.