[asterisk-biz] All users get free USA/Canada calls

[John Scully]

I was once in a sales meeting where a guy doing a presentation countered an 
argument that we
would be giving the product away for free by saying
"Yes, but we will make it up on volume!"
Perhaps he works for Skype now.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Phillips" <g7ltt at g7ltt.com>
To: "Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion" 
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Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 5:02 PM
Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] All users get free USA/Canada calls


>
> All this just to win over customers.
>
> On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 18:41 +0200, Wilson Pickett wrote:
>> http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/14586267.htm
>>
>> "SAN JOSE, Calif. - Skype, eBay Inc.'s Internet telephone subsidiary,
>> has stopped charging users for dialing up people on traditional
>> landline and mobile phones in the U.S. and Canada.
>>
>> The Internet telephone service, which has always offered free PC-to-PC
>> calls around the world, said Monday it will offer its SkypeOut service
>> for free until the end of the year. Previously, Skype users paid about
>> 2 cents a minute for calls to landline and mobile telephones."
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