24 March 2006
The internet service provider Wanadoo says that more than 150,000 customers are now using its voice over internet protocol (VoIP) phone service.
It said it had attracted the number over the past year.
To sign up to a VoIP service, users simply require a broadband internet connection. They can then use that connection to make cheap calls to landlines and calls to other VoIP users are free.
The popularity of the internet phone technology is easy to explain, according to the company's chief executive Eric Abensur. He said that the cheapness and simplicity of the product was the secret of its success.
"You don't have to have a PhD in computing to work it," he explained, adding that it was "hassle-free phone technology", according to Web User.
He even went as far as saying that the number of VoIP users marked "the beginnings of a telephony revolution in the UK and the biggest winners are the consumers".
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