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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)."

13 of 144 comments (clear)

  1. Re:STORY IS A GOATSE.CX LINK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No it's not.

    And which government is that ISP run by?

  2. Re:STORY IS A GOATSE.CX LINK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    US government is run by AOL !!

  3. Wayhey! by PARENT+IS+A+GOATSE.C · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I got the first post!!

    1. Re:Wayhey! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      GAME OVER
      YOU LOSE

    2. Re:Wayhey! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      No actually he won.

  4. blink tags by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    what's better?

    (a) blink tags

    or

    (b) sex with a mare

  5. Re:Blink warning! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Check out one of their links . There is what appears to be a political cartoon with a pyramid, leaking oil?, topped by a star of David. I don't know what it says, but I'm guessing it's not pro-Jew.

    Way to use your new-found freedom of expression, Iraqis -- dis Israel.

    We're free! We're free! Now who can we piss off?

  6. Re:Might As Well Do It Right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    will you please stop trying to contribute to reasonable, on-topic discussion??? this is slashdot and i'm bored damn it I don't need more of you normal people clogging up the trolls

  7. HE DIDN'T FAIL IT! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    hahaha sucka mc.

  8. Re:Blink warning! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Take your pro-semitism elsewhere you stupid jerk

  9. Re:Blink warning! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Actually, I think Israel has done enough shitty things to make the 'Axis of Assholes' list.

    I just think that Iraqis would want to be a bit wiser in who they intend to piss off.

    Speaking of pissing off, piss off, you asshole.

  10. Re:Blink warning! by NicotineAtNight · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Quit your bitching, if it *is* oil, then they're not the only ones who think it... they got oil free from Iran while the Mossad and CIA backed Shah was selling off his country... he's gone now, and it took 25 years, but they finally replaced Iran with Iraq.

  11. 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. :(

    --
    "There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." Proverbs 16:25 (NKJV)