Trust enables free calls via a home phone

The Trust ST-1200 Internet Phone Station allows every user to use a (wireless) home telephone to make telephone calls via the standard telephone line or the Internet using a VoIP program.

With the ST-1200, a (wireless) home telephone and a computer with a broadband connection, it is possible to make free telephone calls via the Internet. Spoken communication via the Internet, better known as Internet telephony or VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), takes place via the Internet connection and a free software program, such as the popular program Skype. When two people both use VoIP, they can call each other from anywhere in the world for free. With the Trust Internet Phone Station, this can now also be done using your own (wireless) telephone. By placing the station between the telephone connection and the telephone and then connecting the station to the computer using the USB cable, it is possible to choose between making a telephone call via the Internet or via the normal telephone line.

By pressing the star button once, it is possible to switch between using the normal telephone line and the VoIP program, or vice versa. The computer which is connected to the Internet must be turned on, however. The speed dial buttons can be used to easily make telephone calls to family and friends, regardless of whether they also have an Internet telephone or not. If the star button is not pressed, the connection will automatically be made via the normal telephone line.

The ST-1200 Internet telephone station comes supplied with a USB cable and an RJ-11 cable, a multi-language instruction manual and a CD-ROM containing software for using a telephone with the leading VoIP application Skype. It will be available from the end of August with a recommended retail price, including VAT, of EUR 47,42.