Talk is cheap
May 24, 2006 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under 3G, Mobile Monitor
BusinessWeek Online has posted an interesting piece titled “Seven Ways to Get Cheaper Calls.”
Everywhere you look there’s Skype, a cheap VOIP service, and heck, almost-free plans for mobile phone subscribers because of that beautiful laissez-fairre thing called competition.
How times have changed. Today, choices abound. In addition to standard wire-line service, consumers can make calls wirelessly, over cable networks, or DSL broadband lines.
And prices are plummeting. On May 17, Cablevision (CVC), a relatively new entrant into the telephone business, announced it would offer international calls to any country in the world for 4 cents a minute. Skype, which lets users make phone calls over the Internet with their computers, announced on May 15 that calls to standard phones in the U.S. and Canada would be free, instead of the 2 cents a minute it previously charged.
