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Businesses Discover Skype

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the catching-on dept.

prostoalex writes "Businesses are starting to pay closer attention to Skype as executives discover that VoIP application can cut the long distance and international call costs. News.com mentions two companies - Aruba Wireless Networks and Ruhrpumpen. The former placed a Skype button on its Web page, the latter put the Skype usernames in its intranet employee directory."

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  1. VoIP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    If people used Asterisk Combined with e164.org free lookups the whole process becomes transparent, and people don't have to go out of their way to make "special" cheap/free calls, it can all be done automatically at the PABX/PBX level and all the person thinks is they've made a call, they don't care how it got to the person.

    1. Re:VoIP by ajaf · · Score: 4, Informative

      Asterisk is not as easy to setup as Skype.
      If you have a company with specialized people, maybe you can invest money and time installing Asterisk, for the rest of the people, Skype is the best solution.

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      ajf
  2. I've said it before... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...I'll say it again. Skype rocks. My mother is one of the most technophobic human being alive. When she found out that she could call my sister in Turkey from the U.S. using Skype, and save a ton of money in the process, once I demo'd it for her, she asked me to set it up. NOW they talk nearly every day. There has NEVER been any technical trouble...except for that time she insisted that she couldn't hear my sister...turns out the volume was turned down on her iMac :)

    Skype is a great application that can provide you with low cost computer to landline phone calls, or FREE computer to computer. I highly recommend it.

  3. Re:Unknown connections by Johnny+Doughnuts · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's a p2p voip application. Those shady looking addresses are your peers.

    Thanks a lot.