France: VoIP boomed

According to the French Center for Technology and Telecommunications, from the end of September 2006 to February 1, 2007, 5.5 million French people chose to exchange telephone via Internet (VoIP). The number of people registering to use telephone services over the Internet increases daily.

Today, the Internet has become popular in every French house. Only need to connect to the Internet, register with the switchboard, the phone number online is accessible to the website to call.

The number of households registering Internet services in France by the end of September 2006 has increased to 14.7 million, up 75% compared to the same period of 2005.

Internet access, people can contact each other via email, chat or use a microphone to talk directly to each other over the Internet. But to contact mobile or landline numbers, French people choose to call via the Internet.

Using a telephone service online allows 70% of the cost of regular call charges via landline phone. In particular, when communicating abroad with friends and relatives, calling over the Internet becomes a service favored by the French people.

In addition, the websites that connect these phones also have other utilities such as 100% free messaging for mobile phones, 50% discount for messaging for other mobile networks.

Thus, in order to save costs, in addition to the exchange of e-mail used in many European countries, especially France, the form of calling over the Internet is becoming more and more popular. In the future, Internet telephony service has the potential to dominate the French postal and telecommunications market.

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