Comments on: Yahoo makes its telecom play

Yahoo to offer two new fee-based voice over IP services so customers can make PC-to-phone calls.

[Stating]

Voice Quality Remains To Be Seen

I have been consistently disappointed with the voice quality of Yahoo Messenger, and the video chat at 1 frame-per-second is unuseable. Yahoo will need to at least match Skype's quality, even at $0.01 / minute for me to use it. What good is half price if quality is half price too? These two VoIP companies use very different network topologies. Skype runs peer-to-peer, which theoretically means it can scale well. Yahoo runs everything through their own servers, so unless they build-out ahead of demand the call quality will suffer. The great thing about Skype is that as users get faster and faster broadband pipes their extra bandwidth is shared with other Skype users so we all benefit.

[kieranmullen]

Skype is overhyped

Skype is a closed network. What is the growthin potential in that versus SIP based networks? Vonage Broadvocie Packet8 etc.

Good luck

[hetzbh]

I totally agree with you

Skype is the best when it comes to PC<->PC calls. The quality is superb (and yes, I have tried AIM, Yahoo, MSN, ICQ).

Yahoo voice chat (and video chat for that matters) simply sucks!