Re: Kiss expensive mobile rates in Australia goodbye ?

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Date: 01/05/05 

Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 21:37:40 +0000

On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 06:57:35 +1000, A User
<serge-newnew2715@mailblocks.com > wrote:

>It goes through servers for connection to PSTN. It's P2P for Skype to
>Skype calls.

True, but as 18866 is cheaper than SkypeOut, and SkypeOut is not very
good, I'm not interested. Particularly in the absence of SkypeIn.

I suspect that the Skype gateway is in Holland, so calls to and from
Aus may have a fair bit of latency whatever: that's quite a few
thousand miles.

>And people mislable it as VOIP, it's not standards based, ir's
>proprietary.

It is VOIP. That's not mislabelling. It's just not SIP VOIP. Skype is
wonderful: good quality over low bandwidth, a doddle to install, even
behind a firewall. Even my Mum could do it - if she had a computer.

It seems to be a better protocol than SIP, but as you say, it is not
"standard", and because Skype won't let others use the protocol for
free (if at all), it's a dead end.

The future is VOIP, but SIP, probably using PCN G771

It's a pity, but unless Skype open up their protocol, it's dead in the
long term. Remember Betamax? That was technically better too, but it
became "non-standard" and VHS won. 

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