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VoIP in the Philippines

by AnP August 8, 2005
written by AnP August 8, 2005

Like a typical Filipino abroad, one of the first in my list when I moved away was to look for options on how to keep in close contact with my family and friends”¦ minus the burned holes in my pockets. To call direct from Germany using T-Online would have been affordable. That is, if I only called once a week, a few minutes at a time. And with T-Online’s rates, we would have only lasted until “O Kamusta ka na?”

Yahoo chat was an option that I used for some time. However, more often than not, we always ended up using the chat board due to our frustrations with all the crackling sounds and disconnections.

Thank God VoiP entered the picture.

VoIP or Voice Over Internet Protocol has made it possible to make a free (or low-cost, depending on the options you choose) phone call using the internet. Indeed, a manna from technology heaven.

As defined by Wikipedia, “œVoIP (also called IP Telephony, and Internet telephony) is the routing of voice conversations over the Internet or any other IP network. The voice data flows over a general-purpose packet-switched network, instead of the traditional dedicated, circuit-switched voice transmission lines.”

There are several companies offering softphones or VoIP technology, targetting millions of Filipinos abroad and their families back home.

Join me as I (along with the other authors here) review the different VoIP providers available to Pinoys all over the world.

Heck, last I heard, even PLDT wants to join the fray.

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AnP works for the mother company of one of the world's top 5 providers of servers and PCs. Since her expatriation in Germany, she has been on the look-out for the best (and cheapest) VoIP provider hoping that one day the "beam me up, Scottie!" technology would go beyond the drawing board of George Lucas. Her other online involvement reflects her passion. She is the founder of PINOYexpats, an ezine for Filipino Expatriates. She is also a professional travel blogger for b5media's Europestring, Creative-Weblogging's Wandalust, Flyaway and Parenting-Weblog, Escapeblog, KnowMoreMedia's RoadGladiator and BootsNAll/Logue It's Gadget Travelgear Blog.

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