Thus spake SBS:
> Paul B (someone@somewhere.com) ha scritto:
>
>>>> Watching a BBC prog yesterday featuring new generation handset,
>>>> either skype or sip compatible. Skype is one of the most expensive
>>>> voip carriers yet everyone thinks it is the dogs boxxox ?. IS it
>>>> they are just clever at marketing.
>
>>> Because it's completely free to other Skype users?
>
> I think that isn't the truth. I suppose that skype eats an unknown
> amount of my bandwidth when it "sleeps"...

Would you prefer the description "effectively free"? Why do I use Skype?
Because a friend in Brittany rang me up & invited me to do so, having stated
that they had themselves been invited. Technical expertise has got naff all
to do with it. I think some here are being slightly snobbish about voip.
What would some of you have me do - tell my friends that they are
technically ignorant for using a system people have actually heard of &
should change to a paid but superior SIP solution that may take days to sort
out?

I'm sure the more savvy among you use Skype & a SIP based service or three
anyway. Why is that something that works 'out of the box' is treated with
distain & does it imply that many possible alternatives don't? Do some of
you vilify others for still using BT for instance? Some people just don't
make a huge number of calls anyway.

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Basically, I hate people who preface nearly every sentence with the word
'basically'!