Calls between people both using the same VoIP package are often free, and you can often make savings calling from a VoIP service to a traditional landline or mobile - frequently national and international calls can be made for the price of a local call.

Skype 
Vonage VoIP
 

Skype

Skype is a little piece of software that lets you make free calls to your friends all over the world who have Skype. With superior call quality, Skype is the best ever for talking, laughing and sharing stories, at work or at home. There are also lots of other useful things you can do with Skype - and they are... well, pretty cheap.

• You can send instant messages, chat with up to 50 people at the same time, and make conference calls.
• Secure and encrypted communication - nobody’s able to listen in.
• 100% ad-free.
• Fast transfer of big files.
• Now with free video calling - Say hello, smile or even wave to anyone, anywhere in the world.

And once you've downloaded your free Skype software, there are lots of other things you can do with Skype that aren't free, but are  pretty cheap actually.

Other useful things you can do with Skype
You can talk to anyone over the Internet for free with Skype. There are some other useful things you can do on Skype that aren't free (but they're pretty cheap, actually).

• SkypeOut™   A low cost way to make calls from Skype to friends with landlines or mobile phones. Have you got friends and family who are not using Skype? Then try Skypeout - wherever they are in the world, you are calling them at local rates.You can also use SkypeOut when you're on the move, to forward your Skype calls to any phone. Whether you're a business traveller, a backpacker in an internet cafe, a university student miles from home or you've come  to the UK to live and work and you want to keep in touch with family and frields back home, top up your credit and use it to call traditional telephones anwhere in the world using Skype.
  
  Calls from Skype to landlines are often cheaper than conventional calls. You can also use your credit to buy ringtones, weemees and pictures to illustrate your personal profile. More about SkypeOut
  

• SkypeIn™ is a real phone number your friends can call - you pick up the call in Skype.  You can get  up to 10 different telephone numbers around the world (in one or more of the places offered) and when your friends on those places call you on that number (using a regular phone), they only pay for a local call. With SkypeIn you also get a free Skype Voicemail subscription.
  
  You can get up to 10 SkypeIn numbers in total from United States, United Kingdom, Brazil, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Poland, Sweden and Switzerland. Skype is continuously working on having numbers available in many more countries around the world. More about SkypeIn
  

• Skype Voicemail™ Skype Voicemail takes your calls when you're busy or offline. Record your own greeting, and take messages while you're away from your computer. For a small fee (€ 5 for 3 months or € 15 for the year) you can send voicemail messages to anyone on skype. Record messages and send them to your friends without disturbing them. Pick up messages when you’re away or busy (and keep them as long as you like). And you don’t have to be online at all for someone to leave a message.Skype Voicemail is free wit SkyeIn, or by a subscription in the SkypeStore. More about Skype Voicemail
  

• SkypeStore - buy headsets, cordless phones, starter kits, Mac compatible products, and products for small businesses or SMEs using Skype. SkypeStore also sells family accessory packs. More about SkypeStore. Or see more Skype accessories on our Skype webstore page. 

• Skype for Business - if you run a small business or SME why not make the most of Skype? Small businesses can administer and allocate credit for up to 20 Skype accounts. More about Skype for Business
  

A note on emergency calls - you cannot make emergency calls with Skype. Skype is not a replacement for your ordinary telephone and can't be used for emergency calling.

Vonage VoIP

***Special Offer *** Vonage, the leading internet telephone company (VoIP), has an exclusive online offer of just £5.99 per month for UNLIMITED UK LANDLINE CALLS* for six months, on its residential package. (After six months you pay the usual price of £7.99 a month - still great value.)

If you have a broadband Internet connection, Vonage can relay your voice over the Internet using a regular phone and a phone adapter. With Vonage you get the convenience of a phone, with the lower costs of calls via broadband.

• UNLIMITED LANDLINE CALLS across the UK and Ireland*
• No software to download
• No headsets to wear - use your existing home phone!
• No hidden costs
• Just plug your phone into the box and the box into your modem, and save!
• your number travels with you - even abroad
• FREE calls to other Vonage users - worldwide (see Vonage website for rates)
• Great low rates on calls to mobiles and fantastic low international rates too (click to find out more)
• Extra services including voicemail emailed to you - FREE!

Extra services: all the services you'd expect from a sophisticated phone package - and they're FREE! Caller display/ID, call forwarding, call return, conference calling, voicemails emailed as an attachment to your email. (click to find out more)

Phone number travels with you - and your callers are only paying for a local call!  Take your VoIP router or adapter with you and plug it into any broadband connection worldwide. If you have,a London Vonage number and take your Vonage adaptor with you on a trip abroad, plug it into your broadband at your destination and the number will ring there - which means your callers are only paying for a local call!

Supports “virtual” numbers: you can live in London, but have a Manchester phone number that rings in your house in  London. Or you can have an Italian number that rings in your house in London on your Vonage line.

Set up separate numbers and voicemails for everyone in the house: have you got teenagers at home, or maybe you live in a shared student house? You could set up separate numbers and voicemail boxes for all of you.

 Small Business Unlimited £18.99 a month

• Unlimited local and national calling anywhere in the UK and the Republic of Ireland
• free fax line with 500 local and national minutes
• only £18.99 a month.
• There are some other costs to start up your sevice - click on the link below for more

Click here to buy or to find out more about Vonage VoIP Small Business Unlimited

If you have an Ethernet modem but don’t have a router than for a small extra cost you can take advantage of Vonage's phone adapter with built in router. If you are an ADSL customer and only have a USB modem then this will need to be replaced with an ADSL modem/router. It takes less than 5 minutes to install a phone adapter or phone adapter with built in router.

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