Voice over IP (VoIP) - what is it?

Voice over IP (VoIP) is simply a method of using spare capacity on your Internet connection to make voice and fax telephone calls and for more than 10 years, the prospect of using permanent data links to provide a low cost method of carrying ordinary voice calls has been the Holy Grail.

Until recently, this has been of benefit to a few larger organisations able to afford and justify the infrastructure of leased lines to the Internet. Now with the advent of low cost and (fairly) readily available broadband connections to the Internet, the whole face of Voice over IP (VoIP) is changing.

Home users can use their broadband connection to make low cost calls via the Internet to virtually anywhere in the world – not just to other VoIP users. All that is needed is a simple telephone adapter.

Business users can do exactly the same thing but with some extra hardware, VoIP can integrate with their existing telephone systems (PABX’s)

* minimum charge per connected call of only one minute.

Alternatively, you can make as many calls as you like, whenever you like and for as long as you like for FREE to anyone else who has a broadband VoIP set-up.

Think of the possibilities, totally free telephone and fax calls between branch offices, teleworkers, agents, etc., or to loved ones overseas.

Alternatively, you can visit our "VoIP Frequently Asked Questions" to provide the answes tor all those little questions you didn't even know you didn't know!