Yes, VOIP works over dialup.  And Skype does a better job for those without broadband.

We’re seeing some progress over how government is acting on the VoIP issue (I’ll refer you to Atty. JJ Disini’s blog

for more info on this).  And I’ve been able to read some ads in

the dailies of startups now offering commercial VoIP services.  Even

UP Diliman has installed a new VoIP-based telephone system.

How cool is that?

Just this morning, I had a chat with my jetsetter mother who is currently on mission in Sri Lanka (ADB

people have all the luck–she’s going to Cambodia immediately after Sri

Lanka!) via Skype.  And I can attest to the clarity.  Grabe,

it’s as if we were chatting on a landline.  What’s good is that I

was connected to the net using dialup (and I believe mom’s hotel

connection was also dialup).  What more if we both had broadband

connections.

Indeed, VoIP works with dialup, too, as I posted earlier.  But between two free service provider options I use (FWD and Skype),

calls over a dialup connection are clearer with Skype.  Any VoIP

call should work well with dialup speeds as long as the appropriate codec is used.  While FWD supports various, including GSM,

which is well-suited for low bandwidth (and used by GSM mobiles), Skype

seems to have perfected low-bandwidth speech communication to a

T.  But FWD is still more scalable in that

it’s not limited to use of a Skype client–the system can actually be

linked up to traditional telephone

interchanges.

So if you ever find the need to call me up from anywhere in the world, my VoIP accounts are indicated in my right sidebar. 

You can actually launch a web client for FWD and call me up, from

either my sidebar (quite a cool i.PH feature IMHO) or by browsing

directly to http://fwd.pulver.com/callme.php. 

Launching from my sidebar, the number is keyed in

automatically.  Otherwise, you’d have to dial 635397 (which is my

FWD number).  Oh, this works only with I.E., since it needs

ActiveX (I’ll discuss issues with web browsers later on).

If I’m offline, leave me a voice message.

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