Recently a company in UK has announced a service called Babble. It is VoIP of course; the novelty is that they are offering free calls to PSTN in UK, US, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. David Beckemeyer and Richard Stastny wonder how they are able to give away free calls to PSTN. A possible answer can be found in an old entry in Om’s blog regarding a company called StanaPhone. That entry could have been written yesterday by changing the name to Babble. Interestingly when I visited StanaPhone’s website today I noticed that the free offer has been replaced by a tariff structure similar to SkypeOut.
Posted by aswath at November 29, 2004 08:32 PM
Babble by BON.net does indeed have a charging scheme...
You pay £25/€35 for an annual mambership and get all calls to Babble Zone 1 free (Europe, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand)
Limitless calling for less than 9 cents a day.
I like it.
Posted by: Craggy at December 1, 2004 08:55 AMWhile browsing through their website, I didn't realize that there is a £25/€35 annual membership fee. Even with that, the service is unsustainably cheap I feel. We have to wait and see.
Posted by: Aswath at December 1, 2004 05:01 PM