Broadband Phone Companies

The available broadband phone companies offer two types of Internet calls: calls from computer to landline or mobile phone and calls from computer to another computer.

The main difference between these types of Internet calls is price.

Calls between computers are typically totally free, while (international) calls to landline phones from your computer may cost up to nearly a dollar a minute.

The companies in this technology sector use basically the same transmission technology, so the main differences, in addition to price (for PC to phone calls), lie in customer service and user-friendliness of the interface.

Broadband Phone Companies - Calls to Landline Phones

Calls from your PC to phones is provided by several companies, including:

Dialpad
Go2Call
Net2Phone
iConnectHere
Vonage

In addition to these, traditional telephone companies such as AT&T and Verizon also have introduced VoIP telephony services.

Dialpad was founded in 1999, and has become one of the world's largest providers of IP based telecommunications.

Dialpad had over 14 million users registered for the service in less than two years.

Meanwhile, Go2Call has been around since 1998. The company's business and residential customers have come from over 100 countries around the world.

Net2Phone has provided VoIP related services since 1996, the year the company was founded. Net2Phone is one of the companies with access to public market funding, as it is publicly traded in NASDAQ marketsite.

iConnectHere is owned by NASDAQ listed DeltaThree. iConnectHere is the company's consumer division for VoIP telephony.

The company has been doing co-operation with Verizon on their VoiceWing service and that relationship may expand in the future towards more closer co-operation.

Finally, Vonage has rapidly grown, ever since the foundation of the company in 2001, into a major player in the VoIP telephony market. The company has over 300,000 active customer lines so far.

Broadband Phone Companies - Calls to Other Computers

Calls between computers are typically totally free. What you do is download software to place the calls (you calling party has to do the same).

Companies in this sector include:

Net2Phone
Skype

Skype is one of the most popular VoIP telephony companies, with nearly tens of millions downloads of their telephony software done so far.

Skype aims to offering free global telephony, to make unlimited, superior quality voice calls via next-generation peer-to-peer software.

Skype calls require a PC microphone and speakers, or an affordable PC headset.

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