“Imagine dumping your long-distance telephone provider because now your Mac can make all your long-distance calls,” David Zeiler writes fro The Baltimore Sun.
“Thanks to Nikotel Inc., Mac owners running OS X can use their computers’ Internet connection to make long-distance telephone calls for mere pennies, with no extra fees or plans required,” Zeiler reports.
Find out more in Zeiler’s full article here.
But more pennies than if you buy one of those long distance phone cards – i.e. not as cheap as they make out.
I use iChat AV for video-chatting with my relatives across the country for at least an hour a day. We don’t call each other on the phone at all any more. Free software and a $149 iSight camera – or use your digital video camera. Not a penny at all after that.