Technology Reports

VoIP stands for Voice over Internet Protocol and it is all about using the Internet to carry voice rather than data.  It is not a brand new technology and has been around for several years.  What is interesting about VoIP is that it is starting to take off as a mainstream way of making Voice calls.  Until only a couple of years ago, VoIP was only used by a very small number of people whe were both Internet savvy and had a high speed or Broadband Internet connection.

In it’s simplest form VoIP calls are from 1 computer to another.  You only need a soft phone, a Headset with a microphone plugged into your sound card, a Broadband Internet connection and a VoIP provider.   What is attractive about VoIP is that nearly all VoIP providers give you free Internet to Internet voice phone calls!

What is starting to attract people to use VoIP in place of a traditional telephone service is the very cheap telephone calls that it offers.  You can call from VoIP to a standard telephone and the call cost is normally only a few pennies per minute to almost anywhere in the world making it much cheaper than traditional telephone calls.