Skype Start-Up To Undercut International Wireless

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday August 2, 2005 @10:10AM from the doing-new-things-with-tech dept.

Mob-Money wrote to mention a Boston Globe article describing a Skype-based startup that is set to undercut the exorbitant fees wireless companies charge for international calls. From the article: "Through a $10-a-year software rental that goes on sale today, iSkoot promises to let people make international calls to other Skype users for nothing more than the price of local air time for the link from their cellphones to their broadband-connected home computers. Just as Internet phone technology has slashed the price of making conventional landline long-distance calls and enabled unlimited calling for as little as $20 a month, the iSkoot technology could put pressure on still-exorbitant wireless international calling charges."

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Re:Skype protocol / SIP by agulliford · 2005-08-02 11:45 · Score: 2, Insightful

Skype is naff because they do not allow SIP clients. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3261.txt The protocol has existed for ages, but Skype are a closed shop - another Microsoft in the making. Dump Skype and get yourself a real VOIP provider that uses SIP.