How to Get Rid of Your Home Phone

Wouldn't you just love to get rid of your home phone? More precisely, wouldn't you just love to get rid of the expense of your existing home phone?

Well now you can. To get rid of your home phone, all you need to do is find an Internet Service Provider (ISP) that can bundle your broadband Internet connection and your home phone plan into a single - significantly cheaper - deal.

Thanks to the advent of the Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and the expansion of high speed broadband, some Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are now able to offer a combination of home phone and broadband Internet access at a fraction of the price that most people are paying for those two individual services now. That's because VoIP enables home phone calls to be made over the Internet; your voice is converted into a digital signal and transmitted just like any other kind of data.

This is cheaper for two reasons:

1. To begin with, you're only paying one provider for one connection, instead of paying home phone line rental and broadband access, quite often through two different companies.
2. What's more, phone calls made over the Internet are also heaps cheaper than calls made on conventional phone lines.

Not surprisingly, given how much cheaper it is now that most Australians can get high speed broadband, Internet phone is really starting to take off. People are very quickly realising that VoIP or 'Internet phone' is the perfect way to get rid of their home phone.

And it's remarkably simple. For example, you can now buy a telephone that's VoIP enabled, and plug it straight into your ADSL phone line, instantly enabling voice calls over the Internet. Even better, some ISPs (such as Virgin) supply a VoIP-enabled modem as part of their package. You simply plug your existing home phone into the modem, and all home phone calls from that point on are made over the Internet.

So if you want to know how to get rid of your home phone, forget Telstra's conventional phone line infrastructure; simply search for a bundled broadband Internet connection and residential line rental deal. You could save hundreds - if not thousands - of dollars a year. In fact, some households will cut their home phone bill in half and get free broadband, to boot!