Yahoo! Messenger Gets Phone Service

prostoalex writes to tell us that Yahoo! has launched a new phone service attached to their Messenger service. From the article: "The calls have to be initiated from a PC, but can be made to traditional landline phones and cellphones. Yahoo customers can receive calls from those phones, as well. Yahoo will charge 2 cents a minute for domestic calls, on top of the monthly $2.99 fee. Per-minute charges to 180 other countries will vary. It won't charge to receive calls."

Comments

Cool ! Now improve the linux client and the video

[OneInEveryCrowd]

I have the windows beta installed now and it looks like it just has the same old video. Skype as well as wigiwigi seem to be way ahead as far as video is concerned. It's going to be interesting to compare voice quality because yahoo now uses the global ip sound voice codec, which is what Skype uses.

Hopefully they add call forwarding too. With Skype I can get calls forwarded to my cel phone even when the computer if off.

The Y! linux client is a real bummer, it looks like they haven't done anything to it for years. The reason I started using windows again was because my Y! chat friends kept wanting to see me on a webcam.

I can even think of a whole country where the internet users would like to see a linux client as good as a windows client. After the raids last year many internet cafes in the Philippines took down their illegal copies of Windows and installed Linux. I heard alot of complaints for a while.

My favorite is actually wigiwigi, I use it whenever I can find someone computer literate enough to use it on the other end.