As of today, free skype out to Canada & US

[Kyril Stoikopoulos]

the end of long distance will be when eveyone uses their ip address as their 
phone number and the software will only reside on your computer. Skype will 
just facilitate more people using their computers for phones.the liberation 
begins after that.
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From: "Peter" <plp-ysDPMY98cNQDDBjDh4tngg at public.gmane.org>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 2:51 PM
Subject: Re: [TLUG]: As of today, free skype out to Canada & US


>
> On Tue, 16 May 2006, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>
>> On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 10:27:09AM -0400, Kyril Stoikopoulos wrote:
>>> welcome to the future of the phone system.
>>> Long distance will be a thing of the past
>>
>> At least until skype has killed all competitors.
>
> Skype was suspected of having grander plans than HiFi VoIP from the 
> beginning, when it was realised it is a wide bandwidth service. The VoIP 
> thing is the freebie. Cherchez le moneymaking machine. In this case media 
> distribution through Skype. Rodio Skype ? Skype TV ? Just wait a little 
> longer.
>
> Peter
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