Emergence of VOIP is Hitting Hard Traditional Telephone Providers

PRLog (Press Release) - Apr 24, 2009 -
Traditional telephone service providers used to  you paid $3-5 per minutes to call international destinations.   General public could not afford to talk longer than few minutes with that kind of charges.  Those days are going to be over soon.  With the advent of Voice-over-IP (VOIP), you can call international and long distance destination for free. There are considerable sudden changes happening in the long distance and international calling markets. It is the VOIP driven Free International Calls are around the corner.   Near zero or free international calls are already offered here.

Now you can call anyone in many countries around the world simply free of charge. You can also get free numbers for receiving international calls. Free calling from one PC to another was around since the start of the internet but now you can make call to standard phones for free. PC to PC calling has many disadvantages. The person you are calling needs to run the same software program (either a chat program or Skype type VOIP application) and connected to the server all the time in order to receive the call. The sound quality of your call is dependent on you and your friends connection speeds. When there are lots of traffic at ones, it is impossible to hold a conversation due to poor sound quality.

With the popularity of VOIP, you can make PC based calls to standard phone lines. You as the caller only needs to have special software to call other other user who can either be in a standard phone or virtual phone running a VOIP client program. This gives this VOIP call the flexibility to call anyone on the move (such as with a mobile) or standard land phones. There are few VOIP applications that truly makes it possible to call direct international or long distance numbers for free.  No more need to have annoying, expensive, per connection charge and per minutes rounding phone cards. All international calls are made free with some obvious restrictions such as to prevent abuse.

The other type of free VOIP is where you log-in to a VOIP service provider and get a local number to you and your international or long distance friend. Then both of you can call each other unlimited with of course reasonable local phone charges if they are any. The obvious disadvantage of this service is it is not completely free and sometimes those pesky local phone charges could add up. However, this service is much better than calling international or long distance direct or using phone cards.

Here http://free2callu.com provides one such great free calls to worldwide service.  Find out how to make free international calls without paying anything at all.