Telephone calls traveling over the Internet are surging in popularity. From virtually nothing a few years ago, Internet-based calling now comprises an estimated 10 percent of international calls.

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), or Internet calling, makes it possible to make local or long-distance telephone voice calls over the Internet without going through a traditional landline ...

Skype Technologies SA, a company that offers free software for making phone calls over the Internet, is introducing a new version of its application on Tuesday that includes a prepay service for ...

When the call is free as with Skype, or cheap with Vonage, callers may accept slightly less call quality. But call center callers and agents need better quality. Calls using public VoIP services have ...

Jaxtr, a Silicon Valley company that offers Internet calling, is crowing about its growth rate. Five million people have used the service since it launched, up from half a million users in July, it ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - AT&T Inc. said late Tuesday that it will begin allowing iPhone owners to use Internet calling services on its wireless network. The phone giant, the exclusive wireless provider for ...

A few years ago, a buzz began spreading about Internet telephony, a technology allowing telephone conversations to be made across the Internet rather than exclusively over regular phone lines. Such ...

But improvements in the technology have taken hold recently, supporting innovative new services and efficiencies in the way phone calls are zipped around the world. In the surest sign of the ...

From the beginning of time, communication has been one of the most important cornerstones in our evolution as a species. And ...

Vonage announced an Internet phone-calling application that can be downloaded for free to iPhone and BlackBerry smartphones allowing international calls through Wi-Fi or cellular networks. Vonage ...