Glocalizing your phone

Om Malik | Monday, August 16, 2004 | 7:43 AM PT | 1 comment

Hey all of us were clammoring for 212-area code numbers, thinking how cool it would be that if we could all virtually live in Manhattan. Primus is going one step further, and now offering glocalized numbers. For ten bucks a month, you could be virtually living in Rome, London or Paris. Thanks to the magic of VoIP. “The number, which costs $9.95 a month, can be used only for incoming calls as a second line to basic Lingo service. At $19.95 a month, Lingo users already get unlimited local and long-distance calls, including unlimited calls to Canada and Western Europe,” USA Today adds. Andy points to another option, Libretel.

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August 18th, 2004
6:50 AM PT
Skibare said:

the coming ””CHANGES”’ of global VOIP are beyond comprehension………….to have a “”VIRTUAL GLOBAL”" number you can dial and speak to somebody in India or China is going to CHANGE telecom forever!

Skibare

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