VoIP Service Providers

What Is VoIP?

VoIP uses your dial-up or broadband connection to make free calls over the internet. The acronym VoIP stands for Voice over Internet Protocol and is the technology for transmitting voice conversations via the internet.  VoIP has been called a few different things in its colourful past such as internet telephony, peer-to-peer, P2P, IP telephony, broadband telephony, voice over broadband and many, many other names.  

How does VoIP Work?

Your voice is carried over an internet connection, usually broadband. Your speech is broken up and carried over the internet as blocks of digital data (the same way that something like an email would be carried), before being turned back into speech at the other end.  Technically it’s possible to use VoIP over a Dial-Up, or narrowband service – but the quality of the service is likely to be poor and it would tie up your normal phone line in the same way that surfing the web on a dial up service would.