Engadget points to a new Voip service that’s offering free-free calls. If you open a VoipBuster account
and buy one Euro worth of credit, calls can be made free to all points in the US, UK, Canada,
Australia and other popular countires, plus low calling rates to many more. On review of the offering, Engadget says:
"The client itself
cannot be construed as feature-rich — there are no bells and whistles, no chat, no conference calling, presence
information or other of the niceties that Skype provides. It’s definitely stripped down calling, but free is a darn
good price, although no one is quite sure how they’re doing it or what the business model will be."
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Hmm… Do you honestly think that it will stay free for ever?
Their business model is surely to grab attention and users during their “beta”, 1 Euro period.
Then they will switch to standard Skype rates, possibly 10% lower. Just the cynic in me…
Still, all competition is good for us humble customers!
August 10th, 2005 at 5:26 am
you bet :)
Still news worth reporting, we think
August 10th, 2005 at 8:58 am
i try out the VoipBuster phon’ it was great, now i’ve try to make a call’ but it say that,
“destination is not free of charge”
plees let me know what i have to do to make it free. thank you
jack -b_g
August 12th, 2005 at 7:04 pm
i try out the VoipBuster phon’ it was great, now i’ve try to make a call’ but it say that,
“destination is not free of charge”…i use it for only one day,
plees let me know what i have to do to make it free. thank you
jack -b_g
August 12th, 2005 at 7:07 pm
it’s work only in us & uk ? in israel it dosn’t work?
August 12th, 2005 at 7:11 pm
READ!!!
Its FREE to about 30 countrys LANDLINEphone!
And Israel is not in the list!
Hm I`ll give it a try – 2 MB software is fare less than Skypes 6-10 MB! And most softphone have 2 MB size.
Haha – who is the developer? Global IP Sound Inc??? Thats the same SKYPE have there sound codec from!!!
BTW there is another NEW client http://www.jajah.com
August 14th, 2005 at 5:17 am
Trying the Voipbuster today,I can say that it works fine,but,in my case when it happens both speakers speaking simultaneously,sometimes we loose part of the conversation.Mybe my cable connection is not good enough,since it is only 2 Mbit/s.
Anyway,it is an achievement to call for free .I cant blame…
October 23rd, 2005 at 5:35 pm
fantastic service.if you have a good microphone and is calibrated correctly and use good earphones, the soud is superb.
i have used 10 euro and when i tried to buy more time the message (error 803 has ocurred) appears.
if anyone has a solution, please let me know.
thanks
November 2nd, 2005 at 4:11 am