"Todd Allcock" <elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> wrote in
news:_BFWj.70$Ci1.57@fe099.usenetserver.com:

> I've resisted VoIP so far, since unlimited runs about
> $20/month, and the $10 difference (Qwest charges $5/month more for
> internet if you drop local phone service for DSL only, so my net
> savings would be $10 rather than $15) doesn't justify losing landline
> reliability.

Wow...I'm only paying $US2.065/month for Skype Out Unlimited to any phone
or sellphone in the USA/Canada/AK/HI/PR. It isn't really unlimited at
10,000 minutes per month, but if you overrun that you have serious
personal issues Skype can't help you with.


http://skype.com/allfeatures/subscri...ubscriptionTab

When you buy Skype Unlimited, they take $30 off each of the incoming
Skype In phone numbers you buy. That came to about $24/number for the
two numbers in my system, one in Charleston, SC and one in London, UK.
that's the PER YEAR rate, not per month. So, the total monthly fee for
US and Canadian customers is 2.065out + 2 in = $4.065 for really
unlimited incoming calls plus 10000 minutes/month calling out.

All the other features like Skype-to-Skype with full motion color video,
video conferencing, all of Skype's online services are free. FREE is our
FRIEND.

The Skype phones have become kind of BIZARRE, lately. You have a
sellphone, so if you're not a hobbleware Verizon slave, you can install
Skype Mobile or PDA versions right on your sellphone and have an all-in-
one VoIP device...right in your pocket, even on the road, saving big
money compared to sellphone LD to Timbuctoo. I have my old Netgear Skype
phone in the bedroom, a really nice USB headset for the mainframe, Skype
on my Nokia N800 Linux tablet (which also runs mobile over BT to the
sellphone data on Alltel EVDO).

New Skype Phones include:
http://skype.com/mobile/

....I kid you not........
SKYPE ON THE PLAYSTATION PORTABLE!
I installed it on 3 PSPs belonging to my buddy's 11, 14 and 16 year old
girls. Even a teenager hasn't trashed 10000 minutes/month. All they
need is wifi Daddy already has or any wifi the PSP can find wherever they
are! NO MORE $300 sellphone bills from the kiddies! Each girl has her
own Skype Unlimited/Skype In phone number....$4.065/month for 10000 min
out and unlimited min in.
http://skype.com/allfeatures/skypeonpsp/
They've all learned to dial +1-areacode-number, now, after some really
embarrassing calls dialing 843-number on Skype, which calls odd people in
VIETNAM (+84 country code)....(c;
The girls have a list of "acceptable restaurants and places" that have
free wifi for their phones. We eat often at Atlanta or Panera Bread but
never Starbucks any more....no free wifi for Skype.

I've called Vietnam many times in haste, too....(c;

VoIP doesn't HAVE to cost $20+/month before you make the first call.
Works great!