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Can Yahoo! Out-Skype Skype?

Last Year's Dialpad Acquisition Becomes This Year's "Phone In" and "Phone Out" Service
By Wireless News Desk
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December 10, 2005 09:00 AM EST
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According to Reuters reports, within the next few days Yahoo! will enable free PC-to-PC voice calling between Yahoo! users, using VoIP-based technology developed by a team from Dialpad, which Yahoo! acquired last year.

The new service, Reuters notes, will be available in 180 countries - though whether Yahoo! will succeed in this bold bid to play catch-up with Skype (now a subsidiary of eBay) is difficult to gauge.

Customers who sign up for Yahoo!'s "Phone Out" service will apparently be able to call the US for just a penny a minute. Calls to thirty-plus countries including Argentina and Korea will cost even less.

Let the VoIP Wars begin.


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End Game 12/10/05 10:27:36 AM EST

While Skype & Yahoo! tough it out, what of the noncontestants? What should companies with no portal presence do to get in on this? Will they become extinct?