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Skype lets you make free and/or very cheap long distance calls to other skype users through the use of voice-over-ip technology on your personal computer. It has been around for a while now but recently it has been made available for use with your mobile device. So now you can use skype on your cell phone to make very inexpensive or sometimes free (depending on where you call) long distance calls, but the people you call have to have skype also installed on their mobile device.

It is not yet available for all cell phones but it is starting to roll out for different types of phones. It is available for the popularly growing apple iphone.

http://web2.0news.be/?p=421

This is the start of a great technological enhancement for mobile phones and communications through the use of a web 2.0 service. imagine when all or most phones will have skype pre-installed on them; there will no longer be excessive or high long distance call charges. on top of that, skype allows users to use all of their other services including IM, call forwarding, and video calling.

The only drawback right now of this great service is the limited number of phones that have skype on it so there are not that many people that can use or make calls with it. And even if you have it on your phone, you can only call other people that have it on installed on their phone. Also, some people have complained about dropped calls and skype not being as consistent as they would like it to be. However i believe that once the positive network externality takes effect and the network of users starts to grow, this will be a popular and highly used service.

http://www.shapeservices.com/en/products/details.php?product=skype&platform=none

Enjoy.