Japan: VoIP for the Masses With 050

securitas writes "Red Herring has a brief article about wide-scale VoIP deployment in Japan with the introduction of the new 050 area code. The new area code 'allows plain old telephone service (POTS) to seamlessly transition to voice-over-IP (VoIP).' Japan is now the largest country to deploy VoIP. Six companies have bought 8.5 million VoIP phone numbers, with 68% (5.78 million) of the new numbers owned by Softbank BB Phone. At $.010 for a three-minute call, the cost is three to eight times less expensive than regular wireline service."

Comments

1 cent?

[bhny]

is $.010 some 3133+ way of writing 1 cent?

$0.010 might be misleading

[Shut the fuck up!]

It could be $0.0109!

Re:Whats the big deal?

[the_consumer]

I'm not a naive user

Not a naive user? I think you'd have to be pretty naive to slashdot your own phone ;) Thankfully goatse.cx loses a lot of impact when someone is describing it over the phone...