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Review by kieranmullen See Profile
Posted: 278 days ago
member for 3.9 years, 658 visits, last login: a few hours ago


Portland,Washington,OR
Contract price not specified.
"No hassles with routing as it is all taken care of. Good for introduction to VOIP."
"Per connection/call fee. Lack of open SIP standards."
"OK for introducing people to voip. No so great long term."
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    I realize the per use connection fee can be avoided if the monhtly unlimited fee is paid, but really, do you need it? They skype rates are high enough as it is in some cases. Yet another company that markets an "unlimited" plan with * denoting a fair usage policy applies. (10,000 minutes per user per month max 6 hours per day and 50 contacts called per day) So it seems limited after all! Even though I do not need the minutes and it is fair for them to place limits on their own service, it should not be marketed as unlimited. This policy almost seems commonplace with VOIP companies and is starting to get on my nerves. »skype.com/legal/terms/fair_usage/

    Open sip standards. So how can one call a skype user using different software from another provider. Oh they can't! Otherwise you could call them with sip uri ( id@domain or ip ) In order to get this to work with your computer off you have to buy special skype only hardware.

    Skype Steals/borrows Your Bandwidth and CPU for routing of calls through your connection.

    An Analysis of the Skype Peer-to-Peer Internet Telephony Protocol
    »www1.cs.columbia.edu/~library/TR···9-04.pdf

    »pdfmenot.com/view/http://www1.cs···9-04.pdf

    or through google
    »drlinky.com/~skype

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