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Voice over instant messaging is built into AIM, Google Talk, Yahoo Messenger and MSN Messenger, but AIM Phoneline would be the first to offer a free phone number. Those services compete with the popular Net phone company Skype, which was acquired by eBay last year.
People can also pay $14.95 a month to upgrade to AIM Phoneline Unlimited, which will let them make calls to any phone number in the U.S. and 30 other countries, the representative said.
AOL, a division of Time Warner, also plans to launch later this month a blogging service called AIM Pages that will alert people when contacts in their buddy list update their AIM Pages blogs, the representative said.
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Only possible because AOL has Billions of dollars in Google & Yahoo shares and in other Big media outlets so they just put out any lies they want.
To be exact, I guarantee you this:
1- AOL will never offer free real phone numbers for people to call into a free IM account.
2- Should such a service be offered for free, it will be just for long enough to sucker enough people into it, once few millions have signed up then they will turn the switch ON and start charging for it big time. After all what are you going to do by that time when you have given this
phone number you got (supposedly for free) to many people. You are going to shut up and pay up what AOL ask from you or loose possible contact from many who you gave this phone number too.
Only possible because AOL has Billions of dollars in Google & Yahoo shares and in other Big media outlets so they just put out any lies they want.
To be exact, I guarantee you this:
1- AOL will never offer free real phone numbers for people to call into a free IM account.
2- Should such a service be offered for free, it will be just for long enough to sucker enough people into it, once few millions have signed up then they will turn the switch ON and start charging for it big time. After all what are you going to do by that time when you have given this
phone number you got (supposedly for free) to many people. You are going to shut up and pay up what AOL ask from you or loose possible contact from many who you gave this phone number too.
Of course this won't stop me from trying it out. It juast stops me depending on it.
I imagine AOL harvesting all the user data and re-selling it.
Did you know that Vonage, the Voice Over Internet phone company, mines all incoming and outgoing phone numbers and re-sells that data to tele-marketers? That is how that 'free' service runs.
Just a hunch, but I'd sure like to read the fine print of this "Too good to be true" offer.
That's my two cents.
Of course this won't stop me from trying it out. It juast stops me depending on it.
I imagine AOL harvesting all the user data and re-selling it.
Did you know that Vonage, the Voice Over Internet phone company, mines all incoming and outgoing phone numbers and re-sells that data to tele-marketers? That is how that 'free' service runs.
Just a hunch, but I'd sure like to read the fine print of this "Too good to be true" offer.
That's my two cents.
http://www.aimphoneline.com/intcalling.adp?pg=1
- Which 30 countries will this new phone svc support?
- by ciscokid2k May 5, 2006 2:41 PM PDT
- If anyone knows....please share the info.
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- 30 countries listed at the website
- by TucsonAlexAZ June 19, 2006 2:14 PM PDT
- the countries (or the limited areas of some contries) are listed at
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(30 Comments)http://www.aimphoneline.com/intcalling.adp?pg=1