May 06, 2006
AOL To Offer VoIP, Profile Service
AOL is offering a new service for users of its instant messaging client that would allow them to receive incoming telephone calls. Dubbed Phoneline, this feature provides phone number to subscribers free of charge. A pay version is being offered which would allow unlimited calls to states and thirty countries worldwide for $14.95 per month.
It is expected to compete with Skype which is offering similar services through its desktop client but Skype users are required to pay an additional fee for receiving a phone number for their account. AOL is also planning to give a fight to MSN Spaces and MySpace with the launch of AIM pages which is a social networking service that alerts the user’s buddies through the AIM client when profiles are updated
via betanews
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