Monday, May 08, 2006
AOL to Offer AIM Users Free Phone Number
America Online is offering its instant messaging users a free phone number for digitized incoming calls, and for an additional charge they can call regular phones using the technology. The move is designed to help AOL cash in on a quickly expanding Internet phone market. eBay subsidiary Skype is already boasting 100 million users touting a similar service. AOL will begin offering the free numbers later this month, though the system will not be designed to allow users to transfer an existing phone number to the service. It is believed that the extra number for incoming calls will be attractive to those wishing to keep their home phone number private or separate from other numbers. For US$14.95 a month users will be able to upgrade to a service that allows for incoming and outgoing calls to the U.S., Canada, and 30 other countries.
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