Vontage new UK VoiP player

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Vonage, the 3i-backed US telecoms group will launch its internet-based telephone service in the UK on the 28 December which it promised would undercut every existing fixed-line telecoms operator in the country.

Vonage services route fixed-line telephone calls over the internet, making them much cheaper than calls routed over traditional networks. In the US the company has two consumer tariffs similar to the sort of pricing used by mobile phone groups and which will be imported into the UK.

For $14.99 (£7.75) a month it offers 500 minutes of local and long-distance calls throughout the US and Canada, and for $24.99 a month it offers unlimited calls across North America. Vonage plans to adopt a business model that will supply equipment to consumers for free.