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Re:Call phones from Gmail by jkincaid on Wednesday August 25, 2010 @04:14PM (#1633996)
Yes, sorry for not being more clear in my original post. It sounded to me like fees from outbound international calls originating in the US will be used to subsidize the domestic US calls.
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Re:Call phones from Gmail by JulianMorrison on Wednesday August 25, 2010 @06:23PM (#1634365)
This is based on the very shaky assumption that international callers won't learn to use Skype or Google's own VOIP chat.
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Re:Call phones from Gmail by hyperbovine on Thursday August 26, 2010 @08:59AM (#1635779)
It's hard to get my 93 year-old grandma on Skype.
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Re:Call phones from Gmail by JulianMorrison on Thursday August 26, 2010 @05:16PM (#1637191)
Easier once she takes a look at the bill and sucks air through her teeth and says "so then, how do you make this computer free phone thing work?"
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Re:Call phones from Gmail by aralib on Friday August 27, 2010 @12:12AM (#1637974)
I doubt they're her teeth.
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