There is an interesting article that gives a fuller picture about internet based services in Canada. The players, the legal tussles going on, etc...
I am still looking for, rather than me trying to give a summary.
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>From: musamize [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 12:14:59 -0700 (PDT)
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>how about www.lingo.com?
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>Mitayo Potosi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>Vonage has a $25/month unlimited calls to US & Canada (http://www.vonage.com/products_premium.php), $0.14 to Uganda (mobile or landline), but $0.28 to UK (http://www.vonage.com/intrates.php#U).
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>Where is the catch?
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>Dear all,
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>I dont think there is any catch. Vonage is at the forefront of VoIP. It is only because telephone companies, which have recouped their investiment a zillion times over, cheat us with these high telephone rates. There is no reason why Telephoning is not as cheap as
e-mail.
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>Uganda should have never allowed the local phone companies to charge wananchi an arm and a leg. And we warned Hon Nkuuhe - head of NRM Science policies. Regardless, Vonage and some five or so other companies are trailblazing the future.
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>The British, under cover of South African telephony may be bleeding us now but the writing is on the wall - they will not fleece us for ever.
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>In Canada the big Telephone companies are fighting back. They want govt to regislate them special favours and protection. They are lobying to get whole telephone-law enforcment public services disbanded and the relevant public servants who enforce these laws put out of business.
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>Wherever you reside get more informed on this ripoff and fight back, through your political representatives. But in the end technology and the people will
win.
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>Humanity is entitled to telephony which is as cheap as e-mail.
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> >From: musamize <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: [email protected]
> >To: [email protected]
> >Subject: [Ugnet] $0.14 to Call Uganda
> >Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 11:43:38 -0700 (PDT)
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> >Vonage has a $25/month unlimited calls to US & Canada (http://www.vonage.com/products_premium.php), $0.14 to Uganda (mobile or landline), but $0.28 to UK (http://www.vonage.com/intrates.php#U).
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> >Where is the catch?
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> >Musamize
> >Usual disclaimers, and, I've never used Vonage.
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