Top rated colleges, like Stanford, Harvard, and MIT, have all successfully deployed new campus-wide voip phone systems. Service provider voip.com gives both newly minted freshmen and seasoned graduate students the top 10 reasons why voip works so well for college students.

1. Conserve your costly cell phone minutes. Save your cell phone for when you really need it and use your voip phone when you're home, or away from an internet connection.
2. Use it at home or while hanging out at any popular Hotspot. You can use a voip adapter with your regular phones at home, or load a SoftPhone onto your laptop and make or receive calls at your favorite Wi-Fi hangout.
3. Saves money on monthly phone bills. Voip subscribers can save up to 80% on their monthly phone bills. International and local long distance rates are cheaper than landline phones, and many premium features are often free.
4. Video voip can help you coordinate collaborative projects. Managing your own schedule can be hard enough but trying to mesh 5 or 6 can be a nightmare. Use video voip sessions for virtual meetings when scheduling conflicts pop up.
5. Helps you keep in touch with the family back home. It's also a good way to stay close with your sweetheart, even if you go to school at opposite ends of the country.
6. Your college probably already has voip right on campus. Many universities are voip-friendly, so your dorm may already be set up to work with a voip phone system.
7. Find Me feature means you don't have to miss calls. Set up a Call Me list and if you miss a call, it will roll over to a series of alternate destinations, like your cell phone, for instance.
8. Incredibly flexible features. Go online and change your feature settings to get exactly what you need, when you need it. You're in complete control.
9. Take it with you during out-of-town internships. No need to get a temporary phone number for your summer internship.
10. Provides a continuous phone number, even through dorm or apartment changes.

Keep your number even if your living situation changes. No numbers to port or new accounts to set up.

To find out more, turn to voip.com, your leading source for voip service and information: http://www.voip.com.