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Originally Posted by TadW
That's great news. I hope all these voip services will put enough pressure on the Telecos to have them lower their fees for voice calls.  |
I think they must be worried sick. In the US and many other places you can get mobile long distance service that is the same rate as a local call all across the country. When I traveled in the US this spring I bought a prepaid phone for $12. It allowed me to call anywhere in the US for the same rate. By calling an 800 dialaround number I was able to call China for no extra cost. That's right! A mobile phone call to China for the cost of local air time! Skype was offering free IP-to-phone calls all across Canada and the US. Jajah is free or low cost (< 2 cents/minute) to many places around the world. If you have cable TV service you can get flat-rate long distance service too. The day of the teleco monopolies is gone
I hope it works well for you in Italy too.
Edit: I made a mistake on Jajah rates.
Jajah is probably the most convenient because you talk phone-to-phone, but it is not the cheapest. It is
Gizmo that has the < 2 cent a minute rates. Here are some rates per minute for the more popular VoIP companies based on a call to China from anywhere:
Jajah-3.1 Skype-2.1 Gizmo Project-1.7 Wengophone-1.4
So far, Jajah seems to have better quality than Skype. I haven't tried the others.