Local starts internet telephone service

A new IT business in Killcare is preparing to launch a cheaper telephone service for Woy Woy Peninsula residents.

Internet Strategic Solutions plans to provide the area with untimed local and international calls for eight cents per call to any household with broadband internet.

Calls to mobiles are timed at 12.7 cents per minute within Australia.

Owner Mr Jeremy Linton-Mann said there are no catches to the service.

"It is just a $5 monthly credit card debit and the cost of equipment that links broadband internet connections to a telephone," Mr Linton-Mann said.

"This exciting new service will include a voice capable modem and installation linking by our qualified IT technicians."

Installation for new customers includes a new designated outgoing call line, new telephone and new telephone/modem box.

The service is initially targeted at communities from Wagstaffe to Killcare Heights.

Other suburbs on the Peninsula will be made available to the service once the IT business has been well-established.

"We want all folk who are currently careful with STD calls to benefit from our service," Mr Linton-Mann said.

"Therefore local, interstate and overseas relatives can be called regularly for the untimed eight cents per call."

Clare Graham, 3 Aug 2007