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19 December 2003

Alas this offer is limited (though there is no need to commit yourselves) and it only works if you either buy a voice over IP telephone or download the appropriate (free) software and configure it (something which I have found less than straightforward to do in the past). Nonetheless, this is clearly the future of telephony.

By coincidence, the “New York Times”:http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/18/technology/circuits/18nett.html?ex=1387083600&en=b28df722ab69712f&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND has just reviewed “Vonage”:http://www.vonage.com/’s Internet to telephone service and says it works just fine. I tried the free Free World Dialup service with my parents and it kind of worked as well but my voice was a little broken up (probably because of my bad habit of running 17 programs at once on my PC.)

I hope France gets connected in a similar way one day – we only pay between 1 and 4p a minute (2 to 7 cents) to call my wife’s friends and family but it still adds up!

See “Free World Dialup”:http://www.freeworldialup.com/ for details.

2 Comments

  1. Hii
    I want to call my brother in Canada Toront..
    Can I call him free??
    Also U.S.
    Bye take care staff.
    Mansoor

    Comment by Mohammad Mansoor — 14 February 2004 @ 2:13 pm

  2. Although the offer is supposed to be only valid over Christmas it seems to be still working. Try it and see!

    Comment by David Brake — 14 February 2004 @ 5:48 pm

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