How to find the Best Home Phone Plan

Home phone plans certainly aren't what they used to be. They're now a lot better! In fact, with the right provider, you can even get your broadband connection included as part of the deal.

Thanks to single-source technology you are now able to bundle your broadband Internet connection and your home phone plan into a single - significantly cheaper - deal. If you choose to have your home phone calls and internet provided in a bundled package (such as the Virgin Broadband products) , your bundled phone and Internet bill is likely to be significantly less than you're currently paying for your home phone and broadband bills, separately. In fact, some households will cut their total bill in half by getting free broadband included!

Not surprisingly, now that most Australians can get high speed broadband, Internet phone is really starting to take off as an alternative to the traditional home phone plans. Consumers are becoming more comfortable with the idea, and new technologies are making it much easier to use. For example, it's now possible to buy a telephone that's VoIP enabled, and which plugs into your ADSL phone line, instantly enabling voice calls over the Internet. Or, some ISPs (such as Virgin Mobile) offer a wireless broadband package as part of their home phone service. With this sort of arrangement, you can simply plug your existing home phone into the supplied modem, and all home phone calls from that point on are made over the 3G mobile network.

As a result, more and more people are turning to Internet phone for their home phone plan, instead of using Telstra's conventional phone line infrastructure.