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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. Ruhrpumpen? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Aruba Wireless Networks and Ruhrpumpen

    Ruhrpumpen. Best company name ever. Bet they have many Blinkenlights.

  2. In other news... by tibike77 · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... corporate executives start to realise it's cheaper to use the internal phone system than calling their employees from their mobile whenever they're both inside the building ;)

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  3. 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.