Making calls without home phone services gains popularity in Australia

An increasing number of consumers in Australia are finding that the need for a home phone line is becoming far less important when the option of using Voice over IP (VoIP) on a naked DSL connection is becoming far more viable.

Many users are choosing to just take out Naked DSL services, which offered broadband access without a home phone service included, rather than pay the extra $25 to get a home phone line installed that they hardly ever use.

One user who chose to opt out of having a home phone line installed said “At my old house I never used the home phone. I was using the internet for international or long-duration calls and then my mobile for everything else. Paying for the home phone was just a necessary evil, especially when I’ve got a good capped plan on my mobile phone from 3. Then I moved house and finally found myself 200 metres from a Naked-enabled telephone exchange. Now I can stop paying for a phone service I don’t need and just get the internet, which comes in at 20 megabits per second on ADSL2+ because I’m so close to the telephone exchange.”

Users are now able to sign up for Naked DSL service with a huge number of service providers throughout the country and many of these providers offer VoIP services that offer cheap phone calls that can be made over the internet using their broadband service.

Most of the VoIP services also allow for home phone to still be used to make calls but rather than being plugged into a phone socket they connect into the back of the broadband router and the connection quality is equal to that of a regular phone line connection.

According to market research group Market Clarity there are 269 VoIP providers in Australia and over 30 percent of these providers of residential VoIP services to their customers.

Source – www.theage.com.au