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Some decades ago international phone calls were a real breakthrough in technologies. Communication with people worldwide became available but very few people can actually afford it as the cost of phone calls was high. Since that time technologies have made a huge step forward. Today anyone can reach any destination place worldwide and what is more important the costs constantly go down.

VoIP is the latest technology that helps you make successful calls from wherever place in the world you are to wherever place in the world you want to get connected with. VoIP stands for Voice over Internet Protocal.
VoIP is telecommunications service that makes calls through your computer possible. There are a lot of telecommunications services that are based on VoIP technologies. MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, Skype and ICQ are only few of them.

Highly developed technologies made VoIP possible but technologies are not the thing that consumers are interested in. What is of greater interest is that making calls using VoIP is much cheaper than using ordinary telephones or cell phones.

You need to have few things to meet the requirements of VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol):

• Personal computer
• Internet connection
• Earphones
• Microphone
• VoIP software installed on your computer

There's only one restriction that can limit your ability to use VoIP – you should have broadband internet connection. Otherwise you calls may not be successful or you will be constantly interrupted. Fortunately high speed internet is a common thing today. That's why VoIP becomes more and more popular with customers.

Phone calls especially international ones can be unaffordably expensive. But the main feature and advantage of VoIP is free calls that you can make to any place in the world. You need to pay only for your Internet connection but you pay for it monthly even without VoIP. VoIP services do not imply any surcharges or hidden charges that you have with ordinary phone calls.

But you make free calls only to people who also have VoIP software installed on their PC.
Besides VoIP is much more than just free international calls and free long distance calls. VoIP is a telecommunication service that lets you keep in touch with people from all over the world. You can send instant messages, you know who is online and who is offline, who is ready to communicate with you and who would prefer to talk to you later.

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