October 22nd, 2008 by Robin Green

Subscription or hardware-based VoIP service might be suitable for some members of your LMS who work from home and prefer to communicate using their regular telephones. Upon signing up for the service, the provider will send the LMS user a phone adapter that he or she plugs into an ADSL line on one side, and on the other, to a regular phone set. Then all the user’s calls will pass through the phone adapter. 

Two bonuses of this system are that the caller doesn’t need a computer and can make unlimited calls to certain locations. The cons include a monthly bill as well as the fact that this hardware isn’t available worldwide. If some of your LMS users don’t have access to the internet at home, this system might be a viable option.