PeterB

Skype for iPhone: Beginning of the End For Mobile Phone Revenue Growth?

I get VOIP service on all our cell phones as well as our landline through a service called Tel3 (tel3advantage.com), where I dial a local number, it recognizes the callerID, (or I can log in via our primary number and a password), and I get Skype-like rates to any phone anywhere. From the landline, I use it for everything beyond local calls (so my POST is local only; NB 911 works as normal), and for the cell phones all international calls. Only problem is that it is from US only, though I have called it from abroad, to call another international number, only paying the semi-exhorbitant roaming rate + Tel3, rather than the full exhorbitant rate. Quality is usually very good, and they have a try-again routine that reroutes the occasional bad one.

iPhone Versus the Rest: More Evidence Smartphone Makers Are in Trouble

Maybe you could use the argument by which my wife and I have different cell phone service providers (I use T-Mobile, she now uses Verizon, having used the older AT&T phone technology till Cingular dropped it): Even though both of our services have significant service holes, most often one of the two will work, wherever we are!