Net Phones Taking Off in the Third World

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday April 19, 2002 @02:03AM from the save-a-buck-or-two dept.

dipfan writes "Internet telephone technology is surging in popularity and starting to make a big dent in telephone revenues in the Third World, for a simple reason: cost. A call from Honduras to the US over the net is just 5 or 10 cents a minute at an internet cafe, compared with $1+ a minute through a telco, reports the Washington Post, which compares the situation to the US where internet telephony "is used mostly by college students and geeks" who have the time and energy to install the software."

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Re:It's about god damn time! by user32.ExitWindowsEx · 2002-04-19 02:34 · Score: 0, Troll

No I don't. I'm a selfish SoB who thinks that you rphone call should wait for my downloads and that your downloads should wait for my phone call. And I'm damn proud of it.

(Mod me however. It's true, not flamebait. I have no compassion, sense of decency, or thought of anyone other thna myself.)

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