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Skype

Skype
Wednesday June 01, 2005
Written by Darren Ellis
Tags: voip
Type: Soft phone
Web: www.skype.com
Free software-based service akin to MSN Messenger -- only designed from the ground up to support voice chat. Double-clicking on a friend's profile calls them. The quality isn't as good as the dedicated VoIP services with some voice garbling and compression effects. Skype also offers off-network calls and the new SkypeIn service offers DID numbers to become a viable software voice solution.
This article appeared in the June, 2005 issue of PC Authority.
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