I don't usually make international phone calls, but being overseas on business like I am now, I do want to call and hear my family's voice. And if families have to live in separate countries, this feeling may be even more keenly felt. Having said that, although international calling has become more reasonably priced, it still ends up costing you, so you can't casually pick up the phone and call.

Some of you may say, "if you call through your PC, the phone bill will be cheaper," but you can't really sit in front of your PC for a long period of time to talk on the phone, and I feel like it's quite different from the feeling of being able to casually pick up the phone and dial.

And as I was thinking about this, I ran into "GLOBARANGE". It is an international IP phone that looks like a telephone. And you can also use your ordinary phone line, too, so you only need 1 telephone. Of course, it's cordless.

And you can use it very easily. On the back of this telephone, you will find a terminal for a regular phone line and LAN, so you just connect the 2 lines there. And the telephone has 2 buttons, one for the IP phone and other for the landline, so you can choose which one you want to use depending on who you want to call. The buttons light up to tell you which line is receiving the call.

If you have this, you can call your husband who may be living overseas for the time being while you're in the kitchen cooking or call your parents every day to ask how they are doing. So making international calls will seem more accessible. You no longer have to worry about the phone bill!

At the moment, "GLOBARANGE" may be used in the US, Canada, Spain, Germany, UK, Australia, and Ireland. And this spring you will be able to use it in Mexico. I hope we will be able to use it in Japan soon.

The blue button is for the ordinary landline. And you push the orange button to make an international IP phone call.

A phone-booth like set up of the "GLOBARANGE" was found at the entrance of the venue where you can actually experience making a phone call with it.