Ebay Pays Four Billion For New Phone Company

EBay has announced that it will buy the Internet voice service
Skype This move could pit eBay against both phone companies and
other voice-over-internet services such as Vonage
Skype can be used to make free voice calls from any computer
running Skype software to any other running the same software,
anywhere in the world For an additional fee, Skype users can
also call regular telephones and vice versa
Although other online services offer free computer-to-computer
voice conversations, Skype has grown at an astonishing rate,
adding 150,000 users a day, mostly in countries such as China,
India and Sweden
Skype will be built into eBay, allowing buyers and sellers to
talk to each other with a single mouse click
USA Today
September 12, 2005
Dr Mercola’s Comment:
I know that this is not related to health, but this is a
major story that will absolutely affect you in the future Since
you are reading this on the Internet it seemed appropriate to
review it
Without any question, nearly all phone service in the future
will be over VoIP Your traditional phone service will cease to
existThereis even a possibility that your phone service may be
FREE in the future, and Google will provide it
This development with eBay and Skype is a major clue that we
are in the middle of a radical transformation of the entire
communication infrastructure It is becoming more and more
obvious that the Internet will become an increasingly important
part of all of our lives
Ifyou want to know what the future stores for your phone, you
simply must read theinterview in my favorite blog,
Engadget, with Michael Robertson He sold MP3com for
nearly half a billion dollars, and he truly understands open
source You will definitely be hearing more about his new
company, SIPphone, in the future

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