The relentless march of modern technology !
Software provider Skype is offering cut price phone calls through home computers, but where both parties have Skype technology installed - calls are free !
Not only free, but with the addition of a cheap Webcam and a microphone, these calls can be between two people whose faces are instantly live on the computer monitor.
And installing that Skype software on your computer ? Yes. That is also free !
It seems that this is just one more nail in the coffin of the fixed line phone people, and it certainly should give a few sleepless nights to the mobile phone companies, all of whom make their money by charging for phone calls.
It is not that many decades ago that the very idea of a video phone hookup was comic book stuff - reminiscent of Dick Tracey or the Jetsons.
It seems that tomorrow has arrived - today !
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