Broadband Phone | What are Broadband Phones?

The massive growth of broadband, along with improvements in broadband telephony, mean that it is now possible to make broadband telephone calls using your existing broadband and phone. This broadband VoIP technology means that wherever you have access to a broadband connection, you can use a broadband telephone.

Broadband phones are therefore now a cheap way of making phone calls to landlines and mobiles. Vonage is a broadband phone service; it allows you to use broadband telephony technology to make cheap and free calls through your existing internet connection. When you sign up to a monthly Vonage call plan for your broadband calls, for example, calls to all the landlines featured in your particular plan are completely free. For more about Vonage broadband telephony, see how Vonage works.

What makes a Vonage broadband phone different

In practice, the three main differences between a Vonage broadband phone and similar broadband telephony services are:

With Vonage as a broadband phone service, your computer doesn’t need to be switched in order for you to make broadband telephone calls, unlike other broadband phone services.
You speak into your regular phone handset. Your home phone simply plugs into a Vonage adapter, which then connects to your broadband modem or router. Other broadband phone packages require you to speak into a headset.

The people you’re calling don’t need to have Vonage, or any kind of broadband telephony service. They don’t even need to have a computer.

So all you need to get started with Vonage is broadband and phone handset.

What to expect from the Vonage broadband phone service

Cheaper bills. The Vonage broadband phone service uses your existing broadband and phone to call both traditional landlines and mobiles at very low prices, much cheaper than with a traditional landline provider.

A choice of call plans to suit your needs and budget to make broadband local and broadband international calls.

A choice of dialling codes for our broadband phone service, so that the area code of your broadband phone number is local to your friends, family or customers, even if you live elsewhere.

Free Vonage to Vonage calls.

You can read through some of our most commonly asked questions in our FAQs section. And a glance at our flexible call plans will give you some idea of what our broadband telephone service could offer you.

Other services for your Vonage broadband phone

Vonage offers a range of other great add-ons that would bolt onto your service. You could, for example, add a Vonage Softphone to your broadband phone package. With this, you can make broadband calls to other landlines and mobiles from your PC or laptop. Or, with Vonage as your broadband telephone, you can set up a Virtual Phone Number. Calls that other people make to this virtual number would be routed through to your main broadband phone. Or you can add another phone line and even keep your phone number.

Vonage broadband phone equipment

When you join Vonage, you'll need a Vonage adapter to turn your normal broadband and phone into a broadband phone. We'll help you work out which one you need, giving you cheap international rates for calls inside and outside the UK. Find out what VoIP equipment you need.

Are you ready to get started with a broadband telephone?