More kiwi ingenuity

[MotherBear]

Kiwi ingenuity drives down phone costs
2:00PM Thursday May 10, 2007
By Steve Boughey

A Dunedin tech company has put another nail in the coffin of old-fashioned telephone networks.

VentureVoIP Ltd, a New Zealand-owned technology company, has launched what they are claiming is "the world's first VoIP end-to-end telecommunications solution".

VoIP stands for Voice over Internet Protocol.

"Low cost, high quality VoIP calls are now available here in New Zealand", the company said in a statement.

With a broadband internet connection, a VoIP user can get all the benefits of their current telephone system - and more.

More here .

[KiwiHopeful]

We have VOIP here in the US. I'm not sure of the statistics, but quite a few people use it. The downside is that when the power is out, you lose your phone service!