This is a story about a guy who was desperately trying to find a cheap and efficient solution to communicate via Internet telephony. Cheap solution through which I can be in touch with the loveable friends out of my home country. My main purpose was not just PC to PC free calls but also a PC to landline calling facility for which you have to pay (peanuts compared to calling abroad using traditional phones). I did a lot of research on the net about the same read reviews, googled few searches, but other than SKYPE could be satisfying enough in terms of reviews, rates, and quality.
Then one day Google launched Google talk and that was the first time I heard about SKYPE. I was surprised to know that Skpye was already very popular and I haven’t yet heard abt it. Nevertheless I researched it and to my satisfaction found it to be good enough. And ironically the launch of Google Talk helped Skype up its popularity than before.
I immediately downloaded skpye and to my surprise the voice feature worked seamlessly behind my office firewall (Yahoo didn’t). I asked one of my frnds to install the same and we tested it. The result simply awesome. We didn’t believe that we were voice chatting via PC. The was no difference between the voice quality as compared to the landline.