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In this age of technology, there is hardly any country which hasn’t been touched by residential VOIP.
Here’s an overview of some of the prominent residential VOIP countries.
Australia has a large number of residential VOIP carriers.
Australian Technology Partnerships for example, facilitates only outbound calls but for zero monthly fee. The termination applying to this residential VOIP service is ATP IAX2. Across Australia you can find DID phone numbers. This service is available on SIP, VOIP or IP phones.
One more residential VOIP provider in Australia is named, rather simply, Broadband Phone. DID numbers are available in Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney only. This residential VOIP provider allows you to call a specific number and then enter the subscriber's extension. All incoming calls are free. You can also subscribe for an additional package that allows you to make outgoing calls.
VOIP provider EagleTalk Australian gives subscribers a free PC enabled phone.
The Australian VOIP provider Encounta provides VOIP as well as SIP telephony products. A micro gateway is used by the residential VOIP for broadband routing. The residential VOIP services bu this company include LCR, which is an embedded and prepaid version of VOIP. You can even receive a Softphone, a VOIP adapter or a USB telephones as well.
The Australian firm FaktorTel offers residential VOIP as well as business VOIP. Their calls are not timed and DID numbers are available in the major cities. With this residential VOIP service you can call any country or part of the country. You can even make calls to a mobile or landline phone. This residential VOIP provider also supports ATA, PBX and software telephones of the major manufacturers.
Germany has lots of residential VOIP vendors. Here is a list of them and what they offer.
The first, 1&1, offers residential VOIP but restricts this facility to its DSL customers. You can receive calls at no charge. Outgoing calls within Germany are charged one Euro.
With residential VOIP provider 3U TELECOM all your calls within Germany cost .99 euro per minute although, like 1&1, this is restricted to its DSL subscribers. You can receive local calls and call one Frankfurt local phone number. This charges for this residential VOIP service are included in each months regular 3U DSL bill. What's good about this residential VOIP provider, however, is that its billing for calls is done by the second instead of by the minute. This adds up to considerable savings over time.
Germany's Freenet has a number of residential VOIP plans. One of these plans includes 100 minutes of free calls within Germany every month. Another costs 2.95 Euros per minute. Again, this is a DSL provider and it is mandatory that you subscribe to its DSL to subscribe to its residential VOIP.
Another residential provider LetsRing offers an unlimited calling plan that covers calls to 66 different countries all over the globe. It also has an unlimited simultaneous calling feature.
Merit, another German residential provider has charges very cheap rates for calls to mobile phones within Germany but requires that you purchase a USB phone to make your calls.
Germany residential provider PURTel allows VOIP phoning within Germany and to Austria, Switzerland and Poland.