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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. Re:One ISP to rule them all by DarkKnightRadick · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    did you happen to have a problem with all the text being apparently inside a blink tag?

    I checked the source and it was made with FrontPage 4.0, that's all I needed to know before I left the site.

    I feel bad for the Iraqi's, having such a poor quality web site for the state run ISP. :(

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