With the world advancing in technology with a rocket speed, what seems modern today is termed as backdated the very next day, just like the way the coming of Internet phones have made land line telephones backdated. With the computer and its associated facilities like the Internet phone the world has become a 'global village' where distance seems to be no big factor and it is within fraction of a second that one can get in touch with any one at any given corner of the world. The Internet phone service sends voices via the Internet rather than the age old phone lines.
The most common procedure is to just plug in the current traditional telephone into the small box that the Internet phone Company provides and the box, in turn, is then plugged into the broadband connection . The Internet phone is then ready for use and now it can be simply dialed in the conventional manner to get in touch with anybody anywhere in the world. However, there are some other Internet phone services which have soft phones where the computer acts as the telephone and a headset or a handset is used for a speaker.