Coms opens its online store, Coms Express, at www.comsexpress.com. The store offers all the basic equipment required, such as internet enabled handsets and headsets, to start using internet telephony to make low-cost or free calls. Coms Express stocks the widest range of VoIP products and guides customers to select the most appropriate equipment for their use.

Making calls over the Internet uses an application called Voice over Internet Protocol (or VoIP). VoIP means that conversations are transmitted over the internet to other internet users or normal telephone users. Coms operates its own VoIP network and calls are cheaper than traditional services because they are made using the customers existing broadband connection.

Juniper Research estimates the global market for VoIP hardware to be worth £2.8 billion by 2007. This figure will be largely due to individuals and businesses migrating from the existing Public Service Telephone Network to Internet telephony services.

Selecting the right VoIP hardware is the key to cost saving and maximising the benefits of VoIP. Coms Express supplies equipment for use with open standard VoIP services and proprietary services such as Skype. Coms Express has been set up to help guide customers through the process and features hints and tips to help first time users set up their service.

"We have selected the most reliable and quality hardware on the market, to sell through our online retail store. These products will help people to use the internet to make cheap and free calls. The internet based telephone call service from Coms is set to dramatically change telephone pricing and give the mobile operators a run for their money." says Richard Bennett, corporate development director of Coms.

Coms Express stocks products from both leading and specialist manufacturers in the VoIP industry such as:

- Terminal Adapters to connect home phones to broadband routers
- USB phone handsets for use with computers
- Wi-Fi and and GSM/Wi-Fi handsets for mobile users
- PBX connectors
- Routers, phone adapters and cables