VoIP Getting Cheaper

from the cheaper-and-cheaper-and-cheaper dept

Just as traditional phone service may be getting more expensive, VoIP appears to be getting cheaper. AT&T, who has abandoned offering traditional phone service to residential locations due to changes in line sharing prices, is now dropping VoIP prices even further. The trend is becoming clearer every day. Traditional phone service continues to get more expensive while VoIP gets cheaper. Yes, there are still some limitations with VoIP, but at some point people are going to start to wonder if those getting around those limitations is really worth paying twice as much.
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    dorpus, 30 Sep 2004 @ 1:32pm

    Until regulators get their claws on it, anyway.

    911, regulatory fees against VoIP spam, and other social responsibilities do come into play.

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  • identicon
    Bill Wilson, 30 Sep 2004 @ 9:28pm

    As cheap as it gets...$19.95 including Europe

    I signed up for lingo.com
    $19.95 per month which includes the usual USA and Canada but also all of Western Europe.

    WOrks fine. Cust support appears to be based in India and were hard to understand ahhhh!!!(had two calls into them setting the thing up through my firewall initially). Otherwise no prob.

    link to this | view in chronology ]


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