Over 50 million western European consumers with a broadband Internet connection at home may use telephony by 2008, a report said. 

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), as Internet telephony is officially known, has becoming more popular among consumers mainly due to free service from providers such as Skype.

Luxemburg-based Skype said it had reached the milestone of one million simultaneous callers. Skype and rivals like Popular Telephony are working with hardware manufacturers like Siemens, Cisco and Plantronics to develop VoIP-enabled home phones that plug into broadband modems.

This will open the way to call VoIP users, at the moment this is not possible, because VoIP users have to be online if they want to be reached via the Internet.

By: DocMemory
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