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eBay Wants Voice Phone Free In Five Years

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the well-sure-don't-we-all dept.

kmk writes "In a few short years, users can expect to make telephone calls for free, with no per-minute charges, as part of a package of services through which carriers make money on advertising or transaction fees, eBay's chief executive said on Wednesday."

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  1. Not as far as I can tell by FluffyWithTeeth · · Score: 5, Informative
    From as far as I can tell, TFA suggests they don't mean free phone calls, but that they're trying to get everyone onto using Skype in the next five years or so.

    And now with advertising in it, yay...

  2. Yeah right ... by Average_Joe_Sixpack · · Score: 5, Informative

    From the company that perfected "nickle and diming."

  3. Wal-Mart LD card charges AND gives me an ad by davidwr · · Score: 5, Informative

    I pay a nickle a minute for a Wal-Mart-branded major-carrier long distance card.

    It still gives me an ad I can't bypass after I enter the number.

    At 5 cents a minute it should be ad-free.

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  4. Re:Yahoo beat them to it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    ummm...Yahoo and others just do free pc to pc calling, pc to phone still costs money. U R wrong.