The technology of VoIP has been a major turning point in the technologies that are improving the mode and the reduction of the associated cost of communication. This technology primarily consists of the transformation of human voice into digital signals which are then sent as data packets over the network through a physical medium which involves a very low cost of transmission. Fibre optics has therefore played the key role (as the physical medium) in the process of cost reduction.

A human being makes a call over the internet quite frequently and therefore this medium of communication has taken on the dominant source of communication for most human beings all over the world. People now have the feature of making calls with the medium of internet with most of them being quite cheap and also in some cases absolutely free.

The hardware which is required for making free internet calls can be a typical land line phone or a VoIP phone or even a PC. All that the user needs to do is to install an ATA (Analogue Telephone Adaptor) in a typical phone to use the internet as the medium for making phone calls. He is also not needed to do this activity when he is using a VoIP phone which already has the required technology installed in it. The option for making calls from a personal computer to a phone is also possible with the help of many softwares which are available in various VoIP service provider websites.

Internet calls are now possible to be made with the provision of the required technology and have many features which are quite attractive. The attraction exists both for the common man as well as for a business as both can use this feature to incur extremely low costs while making phone calls.

VoIP service providers give various types of offers which are available for the users to view in the respective websites of the providers. These offers provide monetary as well as technological benefits to the user and also do the major task of saving time. This time can then be invested in any activity which generates results either of financial or non-financial nature. The technology has therefore increased the number of human beings who make internet calls and therefore stay in touch with their friends, associates and loved ones.

The benefits of this technology have further gained a higher degree of performance in the ability for a person to make free internet calls and hence have all the benefits of making calls made through this medium without the need for paying even a single penny.

The dominant medium for making free calls is the personal computer or more commonly known as the PC. Hence VoIP service provider websites give softwares to its users which are required to be downloaded and installed in the PC. The user interface of these softwares are normally very simple and most of them are in the form of actual phone images which even a layman can associate to. These softwares are all applications which bear quite a high degree of performance and hence the overall benefits of making internet calls is enjoyed by the user in their best form possible.

Human beings have started to make free internet calls in increasing numbers and the number of subscriptions to websites which provide this feature is growing at a phenomenal rate. Most of the service providers are not only surviving, but are also flourishing in this business as well. The profits encountered by these websites are increasing along with the number of hits that these websites receive every day.