Directory of the Best Free Internet Phone Services

Free and Commerical Internet Phone Services (VoIP)

The concept of "free telephony" was first introduced in 1995/1996. The idea is that your voice rather than travelling over your phone line can travel over your internet connection. This is called Internet telephony or Voice over Internet Protocol or VoIP.

Commercial VoIP networks became available and companies started offering "free" telephony service. What's the catch? Well most of the free services show ads while you're dialing and talking. Others offer an up sell - they may only offer "free" connections to a particular country or group of countries.

Let's look at the services below or keep on learning by reading about Video Calling, PC-to-Phone.

Service	Type	Availability
Make low cost calls with Net2Phone!. Net2Phone was one of the earlier netphone players.	Phone - to Phone Web - to - Phone	Web-to-Phone all countires
iConnectHere Internet Phone	Free Phone Adapter to connect your regular phone to your PC, dial any number, lower rates than Skype for PC to Phone	all countries
Skype	Web-to-Web(free for personal use) AND Web-to-Phone	Most countries
Asterisk	Complete PBX in software VoIP. Includes Voicemail services with Directory, Call Conferencing, Interactive Voice Response and Call Queuing
Google Talk	Web-to-web, IM, mail or voice	Requires a Google gmail account
	PC-to-Phone Web-to-Phone	USA CANADA SOUTH AMERICA EUROPE
PCCall: Pc to Phone Also offers Calling Cards, Toll Free Nos.	Web-to-Phone	Worldwide
Dialpad technology is part of Yahoo! Messenger with Voice,	Cheap Web-to-Phone, Free PC to PC	USA(includes Hawaii and Alaska) CANADA
Yahoo! Messenger with Voice	Free PC-to-PC, cheap web-to-phone	Worldwide

Web-Phone, PC - Phone, PC-to-PC, Phone-to-Phone

Free and Commerical Internet Phone Services (VoIP)

Service

Type

Availability

Vonage Canada

ViaTalk - Broadband Phone Service