Article: Internet telephone service is promoted, with caution.

By David DeKok, The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pa. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Oct. 17--Cheap, exciting and complicated, or expensive, stable and simple. Which is more important?

That will be the choice facing consumers in Pennsylvania and across the country as they decide whether to adopt a new form of telephone service called Voice Over Internet Protocol, or VOIP.

The Internet service offers much lower-priced telephone service than what is available now, as well as some really nifty bells and whistles. But if you go this route, you will give up the security and stability of what the industry calls Plain Old Telephone Service, or ...

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