Another supplier will shortly be hitting the market with their Voice over Broadband services aimed at both residential and business broadband users, citing savings on telephone calls by as much as 75% over traditional methods.

Entitled "Noodle" (great name!), little detail is available at the moment bar the usual hardware being supplied consisting of an adaptor and telephone unit in exchange for a one off cost. Pricing has yet to be announced.

Of concern however, is that the The Noodle website states "free phone calls, anytime, anywhere to other Noodle users." It was only last week that Gossiptel announced details of a similar Voice over Broadband launch, but offering free calls to pretty much every other Voice over Broadband subscriber in the world - irrespective of their VOB supplier.

Noodle aims for a UK launch come July 2004.