SkypeOut Connects You To The World: First Impressions

Robin Good reports on his first impressions in using the new official release of Skype and in particular its new revolutionary offering allowing direct PC-to-phone calls called SkypeOut. While the judges are still out, Robin provides its own dose of expert opinion and advice on the strengths and weaknesses of this new technology. What appears very clearly from his report is that nonetheless the excess demand Skype has had to manage in the last few days, the service works, and at times, excellently well. Given the costs reported by Robin Good it's hard to see how would one want to keep opting for traditional phone calls. You don't even have to turn away from your monitor. Just click Skype and you ARE on the world telephone network.