Cheaper than SkypeOut? - VoipBuster: Free International Calls

Yet another player has entered the Internet telephoney market competing with Skype to be the next generation communication tool of choice. VoipBuster specialises in cheep international calls to landline phones using the Internet. How cheap? Very cheap. Currently advertised at “FREE” although there is a $1 Euro account creation fee, it’s hard to compete with those rates if you currently call any of these countries -

Australia
Austria
Belgium
Canada
China
Czech Republic
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Ireland
Italy
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
United Kingdom
United States

Skype Journal: VoipBuster is another small phone client that you download to your PC. It’s not particularly flashy. After you enter a contact you can just click and dial their PSTN number. All numbers are in the international format. +CCareanumber. Apparently there is no PC to PC calling capability. Thus all calls are routed back through the PSTN. It works just like you would expect it to work. Audio and general quality is fine. I tried it on a broadband line. So what we have is a dialer, no chat functionality, no conference calling, no presence infomation, no mute button. So this is stripped down. Just like the old telephone. Plus like Skype when you call a PSTN number there is no caller ID sent. Where’s this product going? I don’t know I sent some questions to VoipBuster support.

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4 Comments

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Wow…that is cool…but how they expect to make any money? As long as it remains free I will use it to call my gf in kingston ontario canada.

Comment by Jason @ 2005-08-10 14:51:24
 
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Hmm… Do you honestly think that it will stay free for ever?

Their business model is surely to grab attention and users during their “beta”, 1 Euro period.

Then they will switch to standard Skype rates, possibly 10% lower. Just the cynic in me…

Still, all competition is good for us humble customers!

Comment by David Kaspar @ 2005-08-10 19:15:46
 
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David, yes I agree. I can’t imagine they will sustain a business with a free service and it’s certainly ambitions if they are starting out this late with a dot.com-esque mad grab for clients at any cost - even running at a loss. That’s a recipe for failure.

But I’ll take the free calls as long as they are free…weeeeeee

Comment by Yaro @ 2005-08-10 20:02:21
 
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Not a bad deal… But have you checked out FireFly? http://www.freshtel.net
Great VOIP, better quality sound, free voicemail, the only downside at the moment is there is no ability to dial in.
Cheap rates too, 6.9c per minute to regional Australia, 10c flat rate to capital cities (if you’re a member)
Have used Skype, but prefer FireFly.

Comment by Ben @ 2005-08-14 08:48:58
 

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