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To: TobagoJack who wrote (57101)	12/10/2004 9:25:48 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) of 74559

Comparing Skype and Vonage. First, Vonage: vonage.com $25 a month for unlimited calls to anywhere in the USA/Canada. You can also get virtual numbers for $5 each vonage.com <Let's say that you live in New York where your Vonage primary number has area code 718. Your mom lives in Florida. Her area code is 561. You could get a virtual phone number in area code 561 that rings to your 718 line. Now mom doesn't have to pay long distance charges when she calls you. It's easy to add a United Kingdom, Canadian, or Mexican Virtual Number too! > Wow, check out how high their international rates are: vonage.com 5c/minute to Japan, 6c to New Zealand. skype.com $0 a month for unlimited Skype to Skype calls to anywhere in the world. For calls to landlines in most countries and USA cellphones, US2c a minute. 1000 minutes a month is about what people use, so that would be $20 a month to most countries. It's tough to beat free and very, very simple. The 2c a minute is cheap and easy. AND the quality is better than landline. Jay, it seems that you have an opportunity to upgrade your services and reduce your costs, which is a nice combination. Vonage says "No charge to thousands of other Vonage customers across the globe". That's not quite as impressive as no charge to millions of other Skype customers around the globe. Free is much better than $25. Add in the high Vonage international rates to non-Vonage numbers and it's already hopeless. Plus the virtual numbers nonsense and confusion. It's very easy. Do yourself a favour and click on skype.com and click download. Easy-peasy. No money needed. No contracts. Nothing. Look at the growth of Skype [with my handy-dandy graph]. 42 million downloads so far and 3 billion minutes served. Message 20847173 Have fun with your new toys. Mqurice

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