blueface.ie

Advantages: Very inexpensive telephone service.
Disadvantages: Not a lot!

~ ~ The title is a wee bit misleading. With "blueface.ie", Ireland's very own Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephone provider you can't actually call the world for free. But you can call large swathes of it for very little cost, and after paying through the nose for most of my life to landline based telephone service providers (like the heinous Eircom!) it certainly FEELS like your getting a free service. ~ ~ Anyway, I jump ahead of myself ...
...it they offer the hard done by Irish consumer in the slow to develop telecommunications market here in the Republic of Ireland? Well, a lot of you will have probably heard mention of VoIP telephones before, especially if you use eBay, who recently bought "SKYPE" and are selling the service hard on their auction site homepage. Blueface are a lot like Skype. They enable you to link up your home or business telephone system to the Internet, and instead ... Read review

The call quality and the rates are more than OK. In addition to that they have a lot of features included in the call plans (online management area, call divert and transfer, pay online, voicemail to e-mail ...). Another good point is there forums : http://forums.blueface.ie , there is always someone to answer quickly. Consequently their customer support is reactive and effective. I would definitely recommand them.