Nearly Free Overseas Skype Calls?

Source: www.voip-news.com

Overseas Skype calls for nearly free? Yep, it’s possible with a service called Talkster. VoIP News has the details.

In VoIP as elsewhere, small changes can have surprising consequences. Take Skype Ltd.’s recently released feature that lets users attach certain caller-ID numbers to SkypeOut calls. One consequence of this new feature will be that Skype users can avoid paying Skype’s international calling rates. All they’ll need to do is make SkypeOut calls that start out local but travel overseas through Talkster’s ad-supported Free World Dialing service, which could save them as much as 25 cents per minute.

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Published on June 26th, 2008 under , , , ,





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