Free phone calls to anywhere in the world? And no landline phone bills? The future should have been bright for broadband phone services, but it seems that making telephone calls over the internet has remained merely a niche interest.According to research from Ofcom, the communications regulator, the percentage of adults with broadband phone services dropped to only 14 per cent in the first quarter of 2008, the same level as when Ofcom started to collect data four years ago. The figure peaked in 2006 at 20 per cent.To read this report in full in The Times, see:
business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/telecoms/article5826796.ece
Have time and tide run away from VoIP services already?
Free phone calls to anywhere in the world? And no landline phone bills? The future should have been bright for broadband phone services, but it seems that making telephone calls over the internet has remained merely a niche interest.