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Telecommunications The mother of all free call offers: from Skype and Intel
Telecommunications The mother of all free call offers: from Skype and Intel | The mother of all free call offers: from Skype and Intel |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Tuesday, 01 May 2007 | |
  
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The initiative could prove quite costly in hard cash: Skype will have to pay call termination rates, generally charged by time, to the carrier terminating each and every call. These calls would normally be charged y Skype to callers at prices starting at $0.021 per minute, and Mothers Day is traditionally the busiest day of the year for telephone calling in the US. Intel is betting quite heavily on the success of Skype. It says that the promotion is a way to demonstrate how audio and video calling are optimised when using PCs powered by the Intel Core 2 Duo processor, as a result of collaborative efforts between Intel and Skype engineers. Gregory Bryant, vice president and general manager of Intel's Digital Office Platform Division, said: "This initiative builds upon our existing efforts with Skype to deliver an enhanced Voice over IP experience. We have optimised the processor and chipset - supporting wide-band high definition audio, for instance - and Skype users have a rich calling experience on their PCs as a result." {moscomment} |
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