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Poll about how many people use VoIP as their main communication channel? or additional option? or want to have a try? or haven’t used it at all?

Skype had its pay monthly calling plans called Skype Pro since long time ago, Since this week, Skype has extended the pay monthly calling plan.

Skype is the most popular VoIP provider and Skype just released version 2 under Linux that introduced free video calls. However, the way to use Skype dial normal phone numbers under Windows doesn’t work well under Linux.

The regular way to register VoIP products from Betamax is via their client softwares, which frequently fails due to error. Except register via client softwares, Betamax also offer web registration for Linux and Mac as they don’t have clients softwares under Linux and Mac.

A useful feature of GTalk2VoIP is that it can be used to make VoIP calls behind firewalls, which block VoIP ports. And GTalk2VoIP itself is an excellent product to make VoIP calls to other IM networks (MSN, Yahoo! and so on) as well as normal landlines and cell phones via Google Talk.

By choosing correct wireless data plans, the mobile VoIP can be even cheaper. For example, subscribers of Tempo Music from Mobistar (Belgium) only have to pay 0.25 euro for each session (less than 1 hour or 1 MB traffic). If Fring or Talkonaut only uses less than 100KB traffic, it means users can talk to more than 10 minutes for 0.25 euro. And for users with “unlimited” data plan, the average price can be even cheaper.

Abbeyphone is VoIP service provided by Abbeynet, but Abbeyphone Firefox VoIP (SIP ) extension developed by AbbeyLab only enables users make calls with Abbeyphone service via Firefox, but also support any standard SIP account.

TringMe now allows making calls from Google Talk (Gtalk). As you know, natively, Gtalk doesn’t support making phone calls. This is yet another feature which underlines TringMe’s core philosophy of not requiring any software installation for purposes of using TringMe. If you already have Gtalk installed, then with this capability, making a worldwide call to any phone or SIP URI from Gtalk is as simple as sending a message using Gtalk. Calls made from Gtalk can be terminated on all devices that TringMe currently supports.

Oigaa is a virtul PBX solution provider for small businesses. Now they provide free trial to first 5000 registers for its virtual PBX service — users can get a virtual local number from 15 countries and 60 free minutes to 50 countries.

Except the free UK virtual incoming number, another attractive fact of Localphone is that it provide very cheap rate to call India. The rate to call land lines and mobile phones is only 1.45 p, which is bloody cheap (almost the same as Betamax including VAT). You can use Localphone from a hardware/software VoIP phone or from your land line/mobile phones via local access numbers, which is very convenient.