Getting The Best Value From A Phone Plan

There are many great advantages to using voip systems in place of your regular phone providers. With everyone scrambling to make savings and economies on the household bills, it's a welcome relief to find a service that lets you make cheaper calls and even free calls using an existing broadband connection.

Voip is becoming increasingly popular, which means more people with voip-equipped PCs can make free calls to each other. To offset this and attract more people to their offers, voip providers sometimes offer monthly or yearly package fees that let you call landline phones for free as well. If you know that you make a lot of calls in a month, or have family members that use the phone a great deal, then free calls each month can be a sizeable saving. Other package options also include international call minutes as part of your subscription, however most overseas tariffs for voip providers are cheaper than regular phone companies.

Another great feature about Voip is its portability. The minimum requirement of voip is a program to install on your PC, turning your computer into a phone emulator or softphone according to the techie jargon. You can then use your laptop or netbook to make calls simply by logging in to your voip account and connecting to the number you need via the software - just as good as an email client. Using a headset or even a specialised voip phone handset, you will always be connected to your home or office number no matter how far you travel, all that's needed is a connection to broadband internet.

Although it has really taken off for small and medium-sized businesses, low cost voip systems for homes are becoming increasingly well catered for with phone plans with a home user in mind, tailoring the plan to suit your budget and amount of use. In addition to the benefit of low cost, there are all sorts of added extras that come as standard on voip plans, such as caller ID, call forwarding and call blocking that ordinarily you would have to pay extra for with a regular phone company, or else buy an expensive handset with the features built in.