Although VoIP has been creating quite a stir in the press recently, it’s actually not a new idea at all. VoIP has been around in one form or another since 1973 when it began as an experiment by the US Department of Defense.
The reason why we haven’t all been using VoIP to make calls until now is that it requires a broadband Internet connection, and broadband has only been widely available to home and business users for a relatively short time. But now, with broadband becoming increasingly common, VoIP has started to take off in a big way.
