It has rekindled the battle over VoIP (Voice over IP), the Internet telephony that allows you to save money on calls and talk for free if both users are connected to the communications services Voip (so that the Budget 2008 has made this a mandatory technology in public administration, for the adoption of which is now awaiting the completion of all the technical steps). The phone calls from services Voip numbers are normal fee but you will save on those towards the fixed network and significantly to international numbers. You can use or pay a flat rate mode and it is precisely these types of deals - including a "mountain" called against a fixed amount per month - which now rotates the price war.
And here came the last move of Skype has launched tenders flat including a personal online number (which allows you to receive calls on Skype by callers from fixed line or mobile phone without using Skype, see box in the page). Of course also other Voip offer personal numbers, but the flat of Skype is the cheapest at the moment. Even the traditional telephone companies - Telecom and competitors - are giving shots in the battle of flat rate Voip and have improved their offerings in the industry. Here is a brief overview.
The flat offers Skype users for official records have three: a 3.39, 4.54 and 10.29 euros per month, VAT included. In the first case, includes unlimited calls to landline numbers in a European country of your choice (even the 'Canada), in the second to 20 European countries and in the third to 34 worldwide. The monthly limit is 10 thousand minutes (about 6 hours a day) and was only to prevent abuse. In the first two charges is also included an online application, including voice mail, while the third offer are three numbers.
First of these offerings Skype were Messagenet Parla.it and to have the cheapest flat, for calling in Canada and worldwide, to 7.89 and 13.20 euros per month. Solutions that may remain competitive because they include an Italian number, unlike Skype (which can not offer it at the time, for regulatory reasons). In all these cases, the calls are VoIP and that's all any of the ADSL operator.
The main phone operators, however, offer services Voip only matched to your ADSL, with a fee that includes one or the other service: do so, for example, Telecom Italia, Fastweb, Tiscali, Wind and Tele2.
Tiscali arrives to serve until 1 January 2010 the canon of 'offering which includes DSL and unlimited national fixed telephone calls (at 29.21 euros per month instead of 38.95). Tiscali has recently improved the proposed semi-flat, Adsl and offering unlimited calls to fixed network to only set up charges (15 cents). There has also added 30 minutes of calls to mobile phones to only set up charges. The fee is promotional (14.57 euros / month until 1 January 2009).
Same times and discounted fees for the promotion of a similar semi-flat for Wind (set up charges 12 cents).
Tele2 hand with the promotional fee has been reduced to just 13.90 euros per month, on semi-flat (step 15 cent), again until 1 january 2009 (after back to 33.95 euros / month). The fee is promotional rather than 14.57 euros / month double flat Tele2 (unlimited national calls on the fixed network without shooting), with the same maturity (after you pay 33.95 euros per month).
The promotion of Fastweb lasts until 1 January 2009, but is extended to all its flat (telephone and DSL). The promotional fee is 9.90 euro / month.
Telecom does not have similar promotions, but defends himself by other means. For example with the free Alice Friends, which has no rival: it allows for free calls via internet, to other users who have activated the Voip Alice (about 1.5 million).
The fees per se are higher compared to competitors: double flat Telecom costs 33.95 euro per month. It is true that is similar to the rival cheaper (Tele2) after his promotion, but the fee Telecom plus the 14.57 euro / month line basis, eliminated with the flat instead of telephone and Tele2 other alternative. But a breakthrough may be imminent: Telecom is launching at a fee not yet formalized, its first offer ADSL + Voip activated in houses without normal voice line and therefore do not pay the fee base.
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