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Calling All Phone Sites
July 25, 2004
By Leslie Walker
The Internet phone industry got a couple of boosts last week.
At one end of the emerging market for online calling, freebie pioneer Skype Technologies (www.skype.com) announced it will launch a new service this week allowing Skype users to call anywhere in the world at rates mostly under 2 cents a minute.
At the other end of this fiercely competitive new business, heavyweight Verizon Communications jumped in to offer unlimited Internet calling to anywhere in the United States for $39.95 a month. (www.verizon.com/voicewing) Verizon is offering a $5 monthly discount for the first six months; customers of its DSL service get $5 more off their bills during and after that promotional period.
These rates make Verizon slightly more expensive than AT&T, which entered the Internet home phone market in February. AT&T's CallVantage service (www.att.com/voip) costs $19.99 a month for the first six months and $34.99 after that.
Both Verizon and AT&T are under pressure to keep prices low because consumers can choose from the cheaper options of such upstarts as vonage-forum.com/vlink6.html">Vonage Holdings, which sells unlimited Internet calling in the United States and Canada for $29.99 a month.
Skype's new SkypeOut service will differ from many rivals' -- and from its earlier service -- in that it will charge by the minute. Skype works only between computers equipped with its software and a microphone; SkypeOut, announced Thursday, will let users place calls from their computers to any regular phone. Company spokeswoman Kelly Larabee said calls among most industrialized countries will cost less than 2 cents a minute.
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