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SkyQube Squared Shakes Up International Calling

Posted by kdawson on from the forward-for-pennies dept.

Max Matakino writes "CNet.co.uk has stumbled across a very interesting box indeed out at CeBIT: 'The SkyQube Squared from Qool Labs is a VoIP gateway that enables you to forward calls and messages made to your mobile phone or landline via SkypeOut to another number anywhere in the world.' This means that if you receive a call to your house phone while you're in China, you can get it forwarded to a Chinese cell phone or telephone for the relatively very cheap price of a SkypeOut call. I'm guessing wireless carriers aren't going to be happy about this one."

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  1. Latency? by L.+VeGas · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This is a cool thing, but I wonder about the lag time. First, there is the typical lag you get on a mobile phone, and added to it is the lag time you will get from VOIP.

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  2. Not so good for UK residents by bogaboga · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I hear UK residents pay for phone service by the minute. If this is indeed the case, this deal is not so good. It is good for us in the US and Canada who pay a flat monthly fee that enables us to make as many call as we wish and to talk for as long as we want.

  3. If the goal is cheap international calling... by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 0, Redundant

    If your goal is cheap international calling (mobile or otherwise), one thing Vonage can do is forward calls from your number to any other number by simultaneously ringing your Vonage phone and the other number. Another thing you can do is bring your Vonage router with you when you go to another country, say China. As long as you have a high-speed Internet connection, it'll work and calls to your home phone number are just like you were at home. Combine the two features -- get a cheap, throw away Chinese cell phone and you can also have the Vonage # forward to the Chinese cell phone number. Now, you'll pay Vonage's international calling rates, but these are much cheaper than paying the exorbitant rates charged by your mobile phone service when you take your GSM phone with you to another country, and with some plans certain countries are even free.

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  4. The creation of yet another /. mantra by Short+Circuit · · Score: 0, Redundant

    We have witnessed the creation of yet another /. mantra, the assumption that anything relating telephony to the Internet is a threat to wireless carriers, and that the carriers will try to quash it.

    If it's an assumption, it's not newsworthy. Drop it or don't mention it.

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