Talk is cheap as Eircom lines up internet calls

EIRCOM is to launch a new service allowing customers to make cheap or free telephone calls on the internet instead of their home phones, the Irish Examiner can reveal.

Concerned about the growing popularity of computer programs allowing callers to use their home computers as free telephones, Eircom is to launch its own service this year.

Eircom’s move into the new “voice over internet” programs follows the massive success of the Skype computer program used by millions of people globally to make free calls.