Luca says calls are cheap enough.

Source: saunderslog.com

It’s hard to disagree with guest-writer Luca Fillighedu’s point of view that calling is cheap enough.  Writing on the Skype Journal, he calls for carriers to begin focusing on applications and features.  Hear hear!  The future is not beating your brains out with ever lower prices.

Published on June 7th, 2007 under


Last 20 posts tagged "Calls"

Free Calls From Your PC

Source: www.voip-news.com

-news.comThere is a new service for free international calls. Voipax has released a service called Freebuzzer.
The free international calls are made through a web browser. You aren’t required…

Published on November 8th, 2008 under , , ,

New Conference Phone Can Make 5-Way Calls

Source: www.voip-news.com

-news.comThere is a new SIP-based conference phone from Konftel. The Konftel 300IP records and stores calls on a memory card and also allows for five-way calls. Five way calls! Personalized…

Published on September 26th, 2008 under , ,

Skype Keeps Saying No Emergency Calls

Source: andyabramson.blogs.com

When you read the story out of the UK that has Skype saying "No 999" you’ll at first want to be outraged. But then Skype has insisted from day one that they are not a phone servic…

Published on September 24th, 2008 under , , ,

VoIP Carriers Must Allow Emergency Calls in EU

Source: www.voip-news.com

VoIP carriers abroad must now allow emergency calls via their VoIP to landline systems and also provide location information where feasible, thanks to a ruling by regulator Ofcom. Emergency is…

Published on September 12th, 2008 under , , , , , , ,

Browser-Based Calls Work

Source: www.voip-news.com

The problem with softphones is that they require software specific to operating system and machine to be installed on a PC before you can use it. Not so with browser-based phones. Browser-based…

Published on August 28th, 2008 under ,

More Free Calls With Asterisk via Gizmo Project

Source: andyabramson.blogs.com

I’ve been a fan of GizmoProject for a very long time, and while I’m using it less and less, and other apps more, I still never forget how much innovation resides inside their team.

Many peo…

Published on August 25th, 2008 under , , , , , , , ,

When You Need to Record VoIP Calls

Source: www.voip-news.com

For those who might need to record a VoIP call, there is a new service from CallCopy. CallCopy Essential is a new VoIP call recording solution that can capture and archive both incoming and outgoing…

Published on August 21st, 2008 under , , ,

Mac and Linux Users Can Make VoIP Calls Too

Source: www.voip-news.com

Mac and Linux users can now make computer to phone VoIP calls with Raketu’s RakOut WebPhone. The program is in beta. The service doesn’t require any downloading.
“With the introduction…

Published on August 21st, 2008 under , , , , , , ,

Send Your Business Calls Somewhere, Anywhere

Source: andyabramson.blogs.com

Chicago based Comunicano client, IfByPhone, was featured in today’s Chicago Sun-Times. The story placement is the work of my virtually based asymmetrical communications agency staff’s teamwork…

Published on July 29th, 2008 under ,

Nearly Free Overseas Skype Calls?

Source: www.voip-news.com

Overseas Skype calls for nearly free? Yep, it’s possible with a service called Talkster. VoIP News has the details.
In VoIP as elsewhere, small changes can have surprising consequences. Tak…

Published on June 26th, 2008 under , , ,

Secret Messages in VoIP Calls?

Source: www.voip-news.com

This is all a little spy-movie-esk for me.
Have you ever had a fuzzy VoIP call? Well, it might not be just a bad connection. It could be someone intercepting your call and inserting secret messages…

Published on June 2nd, 2008 under , , , , ,

Truphone Offers Free/Cheap Calls Away From Wi-Fi

Source: www.voip-news.com

Truphone subscribers are now being offered free or cheap VoIP calls over the cellular network when they are away from Wi-Fi hot spots. The mobile VoIP solution uses a unique set-up to save customers…

Published on May 27th, 2008 under , , , , , , ,

AT&T 3G Media Net PrePaid + Truphone = Free Calls

Source: andyabramson.blogs.com

As many of you know, I’ve become enamored with using my Skypephone over Hutchison3G in the UK via a pre-paid SIM and ultra cheap (5 pounds a month) data plans. I also use prepaid 3G from 3 or…

Published on May 19th, 2008 under , , , , , , , ,

Free Calls Out, But (Sometimes) The Receiving Party Pays

Source: andyabramson.blogs.com

We’ve all heard the model of calls where in Europe and the UK the Calling Party Pays. Here in the USA when it comes to a cell phone to cell phone call, both parties pay per se, even in an unlimited…

Published on May 18th, 2008 under , , , ,

Irwin Loves Tungle, Calls It The Next GrandCentral

Source: andyabramson.blogs.com

Having played a part in helping to propel GrandCentral, I really am over the moon with Irwin’s closing line about client Tungle.

This is huge praise from someone who knows both the VoIP and…

Published on May 13th, 2008 under ,

HD Video Calls Coming from Quanta and ooVoo

Source: www.voip-news.com

Pretty soon, you might just be able to park it on the couch and make face to face phone calls with your HD set. Quanta Research Institute and ooVoo announced Monday that they’ve created a technology…

Published on March 24th, 2008 under , , , ,

US News and World Reports, PC World Highlights A Few Alternate Ways To Save Money on Calls

Source: andyabramson.blogs.com

It looks like the idea of cheaper calling still is on the mind of the opinion leading journalists as members of the public still look at how they can do that to keep phone costs down. What’s…

Published on March 12th, 2008 under , , , ,

"FREE Conference Calls" By iotum on Facebook

Source: snapvoip.blogspot.com

I am very happy to see fellow blogger Alec Saunders‘ iotum going global with it’s FREE Conference Calls application on facebook. iotum is supported by a international group of companies…

$99 Dollars of Calls On the Wall, $99 Dollars Of Calls

Source: andyabramson.blogs.com

Beer drinkers know the song that starts out 99 bottles of beer and as each verse goes by, the number drops. Well that’s about how I feel about the new pricing models from the USA based mob…

Published on February 23rd, 2008 under

Friday Links: Skype, VoIP, Inc., and Conference Calls

Source: www.voip-news.com

For several months, while working on various projects for a large technology company and working full time on top of that, I would take conference calls while driving, eating lunch, having breakfast…

Published on February 15th, 2008 under , , , , , , ,
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