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Cringely Shows How to Get Free Cell Calls
SafariShane writes "In this week's pulpit, Bob describes how to properly use new software from a company called IPDrum. Basically, you use the free mobile-to-mobile feature of any major carrier to call a dedicated cell phone attached to your computer. That call is then connected to Skype, allowing you to make free cell calls just about anywhere. Just how long till someone does this on a large scale, by overselling the dedicated lines, and starts selling true unlimited cell plans?"
i for one, welcome our new undead canine friends!
Glad to see you finally fixed your pitiful web page. Like anybody cares about your vacaction pictures. You have a vastly inflated sense of self-worth...but that's not atypical of people with personal web pages.
I would just like to add my voice to say this series is perhaps the funniest troll I've seen.
Is it possible that this is a hoax? When you click on the "Order Online Now" link, it goes to microsoft.com ....
From TFA:
And the system isn't limited to Skype users, since Skype will (for a small per-minute charge) connect to most of the world's wired and mobile phones
WTF? What's the point? This doesn't look like it's going to come out cheaper for many people; once you pay for 2 cell phones with phone-to-phone and skype's per minute charge (whose value I don't know, as my cursory glance through their website didn't turn up any rates), I'd think most folks' usage on a single plan would be cheaper. I'm pretty sure mine would.
On the other hand, this may provoke the big guys to simply go ahead and price out unlimited service. They could probably meet a price point at or very near whatever this kind of setup would cost and still make a profit. There are apparently a couple outfits around here already doing it...
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