Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Skype or Google?


Remember when your choices were simple and easy, if not cheap? It's was AT&T. That was it. Then it was AT&T or MCI. Who??? (Where was Walleye Phone Company in the fray? It was the best. Just ask Wally Humdink, Pres. Garrison Keillor did! Their cell phone coverage was best in a Ford (or was it in a Chevy?) and on east-west streets (or was it on north-south streets?).

From the latest e-bulletin from the Citizens Utility Board (CUB):

"Google vs. Skype….Callers Win!

"In a blitz on Skype's low-cost phone service, Google is offering free domestic and cheap international calls over the Internet. Users of Google Gmail will be able to click a "call phone" button to connect. Can Google beat Skype? Don't wait to find out. Just enjoy a good deal while you can! Read about Google and Skype phone service, visit our Phone Savings Center for more good deals, and tell your friends to do the same."

Go to www.citizensutilityboard.org and visit the Phone Savings Center.

And support CUB. They are worthy of some of your hard-earned dollars. Even if you just kick in $15-25/year, that will be only a portion of the money that their efforts are already saving you. You can donate right online.

1 comment:

hadassah61953@comcast.net said...

Many thanks for this piece on Skype. We're waiting (ever so patiently) for our youngest son, who just returned to classroom (as a teacher, not a student)this week to hook us up! In Lane's words, "Skype is awesome!" Given his savvy technological intelligence, I'm really excited to think about this application for both business and personal use! Since technology became the new economy during the decade of the 90s, I lost 6 yrs. and 3 mos.of technological education when my employment descended into a technological time warp - more like an abyss - but push button telephones sat at the top of our technological advancements list! But I'm making up for it now!