Knowledge Base

VoIP Telephone Services

It is possible to use your PC or with a headset and microphone or USB telephone handset to make and receive calls over the Internet. To make use of this facility you will need to sign up with a service provider. A table of tested services is shown below.

Tested Services

The services listed below have been tested and proved to work satisfactorily over the UWE network. There are many other suppliers of similar services which have not been tested.

Supplier

Web address

PC to PC

PC to Phone

Phone to PC

Voice Mail

Monthly fee

Yahoo

http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/

Y

N

N

Y

N

Google

www.google.com/talk/

Y

N

N

N

N

These services have been tested and definitely do NOT work with ResNet:

    • MSN (www.imagine-msn.com/messenger/)

    • Tesco (www.tesco.com/telecoms/)