{"id":4458,"date":"2006-05-15T11:24:41","date_gmt":"2006-05-15T11:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/skype-goes-dialpad.html"},"modified":"2006-05-15T11:24:41","modified_gmt":"2006-05-15T11:24:41","slug":"skype-goes-dialpad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/voip\/skype-goes-dialpad.html","title":{"rendered":"Skype Goes Dialpad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dialpad was the first company to allow free calling on landline phones in the US. This was a dotcom luxury we all thought. Almost immediately this unknown company acquired just under 20 million users worldwide keeping in touch with US-based relatives.<\/p>\n<p>Now Skype has <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/tom-keating\/skype\/skypeout-calls-are-now-free.asp\"><font color=\"#800080\">decided<\/font><\/a> to make SkypeOut in the US and Canada also free meaning it will become a DialPad clone. By the way, Dialpad is now part of Yahoo! and no longer offers free service.<\/p>\n<p>This news should result in even more users for Skype&rsquo;s telephone service. This is very very big news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dialpad was the first company to allow free calling on landline phones in the US. This was a dotcom luxury we all thought. Almost immediately this unknown company acquired just under 20 million users worldwide keeping in touch with US-based relatives. Now Skype has decided to make SkypeOut in the US and Canada also free<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[1154,233,17,291],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}