If you always wanted to try Internet Telephony as a viable alternative for those costly international calls, but were not sure about the whole idea, just read on.

This whole mode of communication is made possible by a category of hardware and software that enables people to use the Internet as the transmission medium for telephone calls. For users who have free, or fixed-price Internet access, Internet telephony software essentially provides free telephone calls anywhere in the world.

However there is a flip side to this. To date, Internet telephony does not offer the same quality of telephone service as direct telephone connections. So, if you want to go for the cost-effective medium of Internet telephony, you need to be ready to compromise a bit on quality…