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VoIP Beats Conventional Phone Service In Iraq

Posted by timothy on from the you-would-think-so dept.

andyring writes "According to this article at Wired, without reliable long distance or particularly international telephone service in Iraq, citizens in Baghdad and elsewhere turn to voice chat over programs such as Yahoo Voice Chat or other similar programs. Broadband at Internet cafes in Baghdad runs about $1/hr, whereas an international phone call (if you can even get a connection) is about $1/minute. The service is so popular, it sucks up almost all the available bandwidth from the government-run ISP, State Company for Internet Services (site is Arabic)."

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  1. Correction by borgdows · · Score: 5, Funny

    The service is so popular, it sucks up almost all the available bandwidth from the government-run ISP (LINK)

    It isn't true anymore... from now it is Slashdoters who suck up almost all the available bandwidth...

    1. Re:Correction by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      The Slashdot infidels are NOT using up all our bandwidth! They can NOT Slashdot us! We are, in fact, slashdotting Slashdot as we speak!

      -- Iraq/SCO Information Minister

  2. Re:I've got some experience with VoIP by VirexEye · · Score: 5, Funny

    You were just waiting for a reason to gloat that you have a fiancee to the slashdot crowd weren't you?

  3. Re:I've got some experience with VoIP by Timesprout · · Score: 5, Funny

    He probably wont for much longer if she reads /. and discovers he considers her a 'girlfriend' and he's too cheap to phone her :-)

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