Posted: 16th Jun, 2006 By: MarkJ
ISP Tiscali has announced the launch of its new Netphone product, a free Voice-over-IP (
VoIP) service capable of transforming your PC into a virtual telephone, fax machine and answer phone service:
Developed by Tiscali Lab, Tiscali Netphone enables anyone who downloads the free program to use their PC to make free calls to other PCs, send and receive faxes, text messages and make low cost international and national calls to landlines. Users can also manage their inbound calls by using Tiscali Netphone as an answering service.
Tiscali Netphone is the latest project to emerge from Tiscali Lab, an international virtual technology research and development hub with a task force of 40 experts across Tiscali's five countries. The VoIP service is available to everyone, regardless of their internet provider, and can be downloaded from http://www.tiscali.co.uk/netphone Users will benefit from considerably lower call charges than those levied by traditional phone companies and all PC-to-PC calls are free of charge. Calling another Netphone user is as easy as typing in their email address.
Calls to UK landlines are charged at just 1p per minute and UK mobiles are as low as 12p per minute. International calls from 3p per minute including the most popular countries: USA, Australia, France, Germany and Spain.
Cheaper than many standard mobile phone tariffs, Netphone's text message service is quick and easy to use and costs 6p per message sent to any UK mobile phone. Netphone is also a personal fax machine which converts documents into a digital format to be sent to other PCs free or to a fax machine in the UK for 10p per page.http://www.tiscali.co.uk