Designed to pair with Google Voice but compatible with other VoIP providers, this little gizmo promises free (or at least dirt-cheap) phone service for life. Rick Broida is the author of numerous ...

Although wireless standards like 3G, 4G, and 5G are mostly associated with mobile internet, they also include a phone (voice) component. Up till 4G this was done using traditional circuit-switched ...

At stake are rules used to divvy up the 5.2 billion unassigned phone numbers set aside for use in North America, one of the biggest potential markets for Internet, or voice-over-IP (VoIP), telephone ...

Brent Rose is a journalist, producer, host, and photographer based out of Los Angeles (after 5+ years of vanlife around the U.S. and Canada). He covers a wide range of consumer tech, travel and ...

VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) is a system for transmitting voice calls over the internet. IP phones use an internet connection rather than phone lines for transmission, but otherwise work the ...

An analog telephone adapter (ATA), or FXS gateway, is a device that allows traditional analog phones to be connected to a ...

If you need a phone service but don’t want to deal with an antiquated and expensive landline, you might want to consider a VoIP system. These services allow you to make calls over the internet from ...