phone calls over the net?

[Donkey]

I've heard of making phone calls over the so you only pay the cost of a local call to anywhere in the world. I was asked today about it but i didn't really know any answers for him. So i thought i'd pop over hear and ask. Does someone know anymore than me. How is it done? what do you need? more importantly can it be done in the UK? is any one doing it at the moment.
Any info would be good
Cheers
Rod

sorry just read this http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/Forum1/HTML/008625.html should have checked first i suppose. Has anone else had any experience with all this. Especially in the UK

[This message has been edited by Donkey (edited 09-18-2000).]

[qball]

Can't help you with the UK, guvnah!

Anyway, I have used www.dialpad.com. (http://www.dialpad.com.) It does work, though it can be slow and the quality is not the best. I really only checked out the technology as I make so few long distance calls.