Skype's face about to be smashed into the pavement as Comcast intros free VoIP

[mandy]

Comcast: We'll squash Skype flat

eBay may not be so pleased with its multibillion investment in Skype these days: Comcast is about to roll out a free VoIP and video service that could squash Skype flat.

IP Democracy reports that Comcast will launch a PC-based service to let people communicate using voice and video. And here's the kicker -- it will be free for Comcast's broadband subscribers.

Worse still for Skype is that Comcast will be pitching the idea to other big cable companies like such as Time Warner, Cox, Cablevision and Charter, to make the service interoperable. So broadband subscribers of all the cable giants could communicate for free with one another...

full article: http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/3481

[xppman]

Does anyone here even use Skype?
I don't know of anyone personally who uses it.
I have brothers, sisters and relatives living all over the
country but not one of them that I know
of, even uses this service.

Now I have told many of them about my new
phone service with Vontage (which is VOIP).
I went from well over 100.00 a month for phone service to 24.95 a month with
too many features to mention and free unlimited long distance too.

My cable company now offers it but they are wanting to charge 10.00 more a month,
so until they FORCE Vontage out of their cable lines, I'm going to continue to pay
the 10.00 less for Vontage.

Personally (and this is ebay's doing)
I will steer CLEAR on anything with ebay's brand name on it.
If ebay bought Mickey D's... well no more chicken nuggets and happy meals for me.

[BellisimaJ.]

Go Comcast!!

I am a Comcast customer for cable and high-speed internet. Be happy to add free phone service, lol.


PS// Down with Skype and ebay!!