VoIP Now: Lingo, Vonage, Skype, AT&T VoIP for Beginners

September 21, 2004

Lingo, Vonage, Skype, AT&T VoIP for Beginners

Business Week Online's technology editor Alex Salkever offers a good beginner's guide to getting started with VoIP. Below is his answer to the question, "How much money will I save?"

From Business Week Online:

One well known VoIP provider, the Lingo service offered by Primus, is offering a $19.95-a-month plan that includes unlimited talk time on all local and domestic long-distance calls as well as calls to Canada and Western Europe.

Even the VoIP plans offered by big cable operators, long-distance providers such as AT&T (T ), and the larger upstarts such as Vonage undercut the cost of traditional phone plans by as much as 50%. Skype Technologies is offering a VoIP service that allows any Skype user to talk to any other user of the service over the Net for free, using a PC or phone-like device.