15 Apr 2007

Switched to Skype

We've ditched our $30/month Vonage-clone VOIP service (Primus TalkBroadband) for Skype for $58/year -- with unlimited North American calling. The call quality is better, too. So they're going to help put Vonage out of business. Good thing, too, as the only thing I ever liked about Vonage is that they threatened the phone companies: beyond disrupting them, they never worked at innovating their service. I figure Skype has a couple of years to make some money before they're put out of business by P2P VOIP and nobody has to deal with landlines at all. They do at least have a nice (if nonstandard) codec going for them.

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