Skype still rocks: free international calls
An extremely popular VoIP application Skype continues to provide great-quality services. After the announcement of free landline calls between the USA and Canada, there’s another great offer: free international calls to 30 countries all over the world. These free minutes don’t include mobile phones, only landlines as before, but it’s still a nice offer. What’s bad for many people is that this will work again only in the United States – we all in Europe still have to pay for calling. Under the terms of the offer, which runs until 30 June, US Skype users signing up to the firm’s SkypeOut service will be offered 60 minutes of free calls to landlines in Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Mexico and the UK among others. Skype users in both countries were previously required to pay for Skype calls from their PCs to traditional telephones. Good work Skype!
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skype sucks. Learn more about their “supernodes” system and you will realize why.
yeah there were many discussions about this, but it’s still probably the best application on the market. you can try some alternatives used mainly in progaming like teamspeak or ventrilo, but they are too complicated for normal users and the quality of voice is sometimes also a bit worse…
Ehm, those are mainly used for games BECAUSE of the lower sound quality (which is adjustable).
well i would wrote it little better, they are used because of lower BANDWITH required to hear the voice of other people…
With PC2PC calls, why not use Goggle Talk? I seemed to achieve better sound quality than in Skype, though I left Skype long time ago, it was eating too much B/W…
Its not the best application, its the best KNOWN application -that makes the difference. Check wikipedia’s skype article about things you maybe didnt know before and for its alternatives, both open and closed source.
Link to skype-homepage? please! thanks!