Net Phones Taking Off in the Third World 173
dipfan writes "Internet telephone technology is surging in popularity and starting to make a big dent in telephone revenues in the Third World, for a simple reason: cost. A call from Honduras to the US over the net is just 5 or 10 cents a minute at an internet cafe, compared with $1+ a minute through a telco, reports the Washington Post, which compares the situation to the US where internet telephony "is used mostly by college students and geeks" who have the time and energy to install the software."
quote of the day (Score:1, Funny)
And at some schools [rpi.edu]
Why are these people complaining about 80 cents? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Don't Say "Third World" (Score:1, Funny)
The term was an analogy comparing pre-industrial nations pre-Revolutionary France. Pre revolutionary France was the Third Estate -- a downtrodden shithole of poverty, hence the Third Fucking World.
Read up on the fucking etymology of this shit before you assume far too much.