VoIP phone service-cheap calls to USA

Hi guys,

I'm new here but thought I might tell you of a super cheap way to call the USA/Canada/W.Europe for only $19.99 a month. I live in Charleston, SC at the moment and call my family all over Europe with it.
It is a "voice over internet protocol" phone service and works by connecting to your broad band internet connection box thingy. You can then plug your phone into it and make phone calls like normal! My mum and dad who are in Spain have one and I make "local" calls to them! The call quality is great and you can use it in the UK no probs.
You can even pay about $6 a month more for a London number!
Only catch is you need a US billing address, maybe you could use your mother/father/siblings etc address???

Check out: www.lingo.com [nofollow]

I have had it for 7 months and love it! It was so nice to tell bellsouth to screw themselves!

All the best,
MH

interesting!!  ive been paying about $80 a month using 10-10-987

so it has nothing to do with your phone land line? just the cable modem connection? seems like it would be noisey!
how do they assign you a phone number? do you just pick one?

it helps reading the faq doesnt it?

There is a thing like that here it's called Vonage you pay £10 a month and all UK calls are free and cheap international rates - 2p a minute to the US. Haven't tried it yet though.

I use Lingo as well, and we love it!

I use Lingo also.  It works great but you need to have a good internet connection.  We have broadband but not a lot of bandwidth, so when my flatmate is downloading music or working (he has an IT job and works from home a lot) the calls are very bad.  I know that's the issue because we didn't have any trouble until he moved in.

Aaron

To call the UK from the US try using Penny Talk.  It's only 45cents to connect then only 2cents a minute.  I have used it for months now and it's very reliable. 

http://www.getpennytalk.com/

~Liza