Cheapest VOIP

[xtraze]

I think I can use this a bit and my dad likes it. And He told me to look about it and as I don't know more about VOIP, I ask help from you guys.
Advance thanks.

[AfTriX]

I think a brief Introduction will be suitable as the first reply!

Voice over IP (VoIP) can be described as the ability to make telephone calls and send faxes over IP-based data networks with a suitable Quality of Service (QoS). The voice information is sent in digital form using discrete packets rather than via dedicated connections as in the circuit-switched Public Switch Telephone Network (PSTN). At the time of writing this document, there are two major international groups defining standards for VoIP:

* International Telecommunications Union (ITU) - The ITU has defined the H.323 standard, which covers VoIP.
* Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) - The IETF has defined drafts of the following RFC (Request for Comment) documents:
o RFC 2543, the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
o RFC 27053, the Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP)
o RFC 3015, Megaco Protocol Version 1.0 (Megaco)

The H.323 standard was developed in the mid 1990s and is more mature than any of the protocols mentioned above.

[AfTriX]

The Top 10 VoIP Providers
(listed by number of customers were

1.Skype- 5,300,000
2.Yahoo! Japan- 4,517,000
3.VoiceGlo- 605,000
4.Free (France)- 600,000
5.Vonage (you knew we would get to them eventually) 535,000.
6.FastWeb (Italy) 528,000
7.Cox- 413,000
8.Time Warner- 372,000
9.Cablevision- 364,000
10. Neuf (France)- 297,000

According to the overall numbers, there were some 17,400,000 VOIP subscribers worldwide in 1Q of this year- up 3 million from 14,400,000 in 1Q 2004.


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So what are the numbers next to the voips that you have listed here? Is this the number of subscribers?

[AfTriX]

Originally Posted by littlefranciscan

So what are the numbers next to the voips that you have listed here? Is this the number of subscribers?

Thats why you got to read the message or the reply completely, I have mentioned in the heading. So I'm not going to specify the same thing here either. Go through once again!!

Dont be huffy..there are ways to say things..so I read to fast..do you have to be huffy?

[AfTriX]

Oh is it so!..

I'm sorry if my words hurt you.

It was listed 1 to 10 according to the number of customers using.

[techni68]

I heard that Skype is a really good voip.. My brother has skype and when he calls it's clear as day.

[AfTriX]

Nowadays almost most of the people are using the Skype, since it has a feature of searching individuals giving certain criteria as Age, Country and so on...

So my guess is its becoming a type as Community of Friends Circle.

[AfTriX]

What you guys think of Net 2 Phone?