Internet Phones

Internet phone calls information

As the name suggests, an internet phone uses your internet connection to enable you to make cheap and free internet phone calls. Compared to traditional landlines and mobile phones, internet phones are much cheaper – if not free. With Vonage, for example, internet calls to certain mobiles and landlines are free and unlimited¹, depending on the call plan you sign up to. You can find out about how Vonage works, and you'll see exactly how modern internet telephony helps people stay in touch with friends and family.

How to get started with internet telephony

The only thing you need to start making internet phone calls is a high-speed internet connection (broadband) and a Vonage phone adapter, which turns your normal home phone into an internet phone. As soon as you receive your phone adapter, you can get started right away with your Vonage internet phone service, and make your first free internet calls. You can read through common queries about internet calls in our FAQs section.

Internet calls with Vonage are different

Traditionally, internet phones allow you to make calls from one computer to another, using a headset. The drawback is that you have to be at your computer in order to make internet calls. Vonage's internet phone service is different. It uses a Vonage phone adapter to connect your home phone to your broadband modem or router. Vonage routes calls over your internet connection, just like most internet phone service providers. The difference is that you make and receive cheap and free internet calls from your normal home phone.

In practice, this means two things. First, unlike some internet phone services, you aren't restricted to making free calls only to other computers, or only to people who have signed up to the same provider. With Vonage, you can make internet calls to other landlines and mobiles. Second, you can use your normal phone the same as always. When you want to make internet calls, you don't have to do so from your computer. In fact, your computer doesn't even need to be switched on in order for you to make internet phone calls.

More benefits of Vonage's internet phones service

Because of the way that Vonage works, there are a range of extra benefits to choosing Vonage for to make internet phone calls.

• The Vonage internet telephony service allows you to choose a dialling code. You can choose from a wide range of local and national UK area codes. You can make internet calls to clients as though you were local to them, even though you may be calling from another UK city or town. Likewise, your friends and family can call you on your internet phone number on a local rate to them, even if you are out of town.
• With Vonage as your internet phone, you can set up a Virtual phone number as a second 'virtual' number to your account.
• The Vonage Softphone gives you the option of making internet telephone calls to landlines and mobiles from your laptop or PC.
• All Vonage to Vonage calls are inclusive and unlimited¹.

If you're ready to start using internet phones, you can sign up today and start making cheap and free internet phone calls.