Rather, he said savings generated from migrating from fixed line to VOIP will help fund and sustain infrastructure build-up, both for private sector companies and government agencies.

Moreover, as more and more users share the infrastructure using VOIP, the cost ideally gets lower for the end-consumer.

'There should also be more services and other applications (aside from voice calls) that run on the same infrastructure as VOIP,' said Torres, who was among a group of executives from service providers present in a press briefing, along with Rep. Kintanar, during yesterday's opening of the 1st VOIP International Conference.