People use VOIP for very practical reasons. You can easily call anywhere in the world at rates that are lower than if you used your regular telephone or even your mobile phone. Who doesn’t want to save money, right? Let me give you an example. If you lived in Europe, for example, and would like to place a call to your cousin who lives in Florida, you would have to pay a hefty per minute rate. The rates are...

A gadget called the Skype USB to RJ11 Adaptor lets you make and receive free Internet VoIP calls using your regular home phone — and your cell phone. The device plugs into your PC’s USB port, and has a place to plug in your home phone. Once you set it up, you can use your home phone to make free calls to anywhere in the world. (Note that this is not a review — all claims are made by the company and have...

Skype and Skype watchers have been saying for some time now that a surprising proportion of the low-or-no-cost VoIP service’s customers are using it for business. This is probably truer in Europe and the Far East where phone companies often charge for local calls, and long distance typically costs more than it does in North America. But the idea of using Skype for business is evidently starting to catch on...

Skype has warned of a flaw in its popular VoIP client software that creates a means for hackers to swipe files from their “buddies”. The flaw can be exploited via a malicious constructed Skype URL which initiates the transfer of a single named file to another Skype user. The security bug stems from an error within the parsing of the parameters passed by the URL handler. This flaw creates a means for hackers...

Of course with the big players you’ll generally pay about 5 or 10 dollars more, just for the assurance of having a well-known brand name like AT&T or Vonage ( the current largest VoIP providers in the market). But then more and more companies are spreading its wings, so again, it’s all up to you. However, keep in mind that if a service has less than 100,000 subscribers you might want to think twice before...

Of course with the big players you’ll generally pay about 5 or 10 dollars more, just for the assurance of having a well-known brand name like AT&T or Vonage ( the current largest VoIP providers in the market). But then more and more companies are spreading its wings, so again, it’s all up to you. However, keep in mind that if a service has less than 100,000 subscribers you might want to think twice before...

Next stop is called “iConnectHere Broadband Phone”. They offer a very affordable calling rates (which starts at about $20) either for local, long distance or even international telephone needs. With such plans you can have a saving of up to 80% against the traditional phone service. Moreover, they plans comes with tons of features all for free. There are two more services that you can check out, namely Skype...

Just hearing that basic advantage a lot of people had immediately jumped in to join the VoIP bandwagon and made the switch from the traditional telephony system. Although the number of people switching to VoIP consistently increases daily, VoIP providers are still diligently working on ways to improve and enhance their product. The most recent and probably most controversial development is the so-called free...

It was when I first moved out of my parents’ house in order to go to college that I first became aware of the exorbitant long distance charges you have to shoulder just so you can stay in touch of your family. I have been bemoaning about this problem for nearly a decade now, but have been with no option but to bear it all. After all, staying in touch with your friends and family is much more important especially...

An analog gateway consistently has the same number of voice channels as the number of interfaces. For instance, if there are 16 interfaces then it can handle 16 concurrent calls — not so for digital gateways. A digital gateway may have a particular number of digital trunk interfaces and each holds a specific number of voice channels inside. Take T1 (which is used in the USA) for example. It has 24 channels...