Founded in Queensland, Australia in 2004, FaktorTel is one of Australia's largest privately owned VoIP network providers. FaktorTel uses its VoIP network to deliver superior internet-based telephony services to its residential, business, corporate and wholesale customers. Uniquely, FaktorTel owns, operates and maintains its own purpose-built VoIP network with direct connectivity to most of Australias major carriers, and have formed agreements with other carriers to provide national and global reach. Renowned for its championing of the open source asterisk platform, network up-time and high redundancy levels, FaktorTel's internet-based telephony solutions are available to all customers, unbiased and independent of the internet service providers they choose.