Yes, the good old telephone over the internet thing. I recently changed over to VOIP for my home phone and can now make calls (local, national, and some international) for nothing (well, there's a $10 a month service fee). Calls to cell phones are still charged, but that's nothing new I guess.

The uptake of VOIP in Australia has been limited. A lot of people don't really know it exists, and those that do have to face Australia's weird ISP fixation on capping data use. On top of that, until fairly recently decent internet service has been limited to cities. For example, despite living only 80kms from Brisbane (the Capital city of Queensland) I can still only get ADSL1 (though I've jiggered it so I can get around 16Mbps download speeds now).

Anyway, I'm interested to know whether many of the non-Australians (and Aussies for that matter) on the forum use VOIP? And what kind of hardware/internet do you have? For example, I've got a 16Mbps download/ 1Mbps upload connection with 100Gig a month data limit and I use an AVM Fritz!box 7390 modem/router/dect/voip all in one thingy.

James.