Internet Telephone Service

A combination of hardware and software which enables people to access the Internet as the transmission medium for making telephone calls. Internet telephone software provides free telephone calls across any part of the world but this facility is only for the users who have free, or fixed-price Internet access enablility. But the fact is also that till date the internet telephony still fails to provide the quality of telephone services as compare to direct conections.

There are many Internet telephony applications available. Some, like CoolTalk and NetMeeting, come bundled with popular Web browsers. Others are stand-alone products. Internet telephony products are sometimes called IP telephony, Voice over the Internet (VOI) or Voice over IP (VOIP) products.

Internet telephony calls are also referred as IP telephony, VOI (Voice over Internet) or even VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol). The companies who offer Voip Service's are as follows:

www.8x8.com
www.broadvoice.
www.whichvoip.com