AOL has launched
AIM Phoneline, a VoIP service
announced back in May that gives anyone a free phone number that allows unlimited inbound calls for free from any standard phone. The service works through AIM Triton (which makes it Windows-only for now) and includes free caller ID and voicemail. In addition, there's an "Unlimited" service that allows unlimited outgoing calls to 30 countries for $9.95 per month. When you sign up for AIM Phoneline it will ask for your street address and then assign you a number local to your area, rather than allowing you to simply choose an area code as other services like SkypeIn and Vonage allow. When I tried to sign up I found, much to my surprise, that numbers in my area are not yet available, and there's no map or list of areas where it is available, which is a big strike against it. If you want my advice, AOL, let me choose my area code, let me pick from available numbers, and don't ask for my address. Apart from that, though, AIM Phoneline looks great.
Tags: aim, aimphoneline, aimtriton, aol, phone, phoneline, skype, voip
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Subscribe to commentsrasbillAug 10th 2006 4:59PM
im really suprized how well this works, i havent even had to enter any payment info and i instantly got a working phone number, u have to use the new aim client though which sucks but its worth it, and for 10 bucks a month to be able to call people with it sounds really nice, im gonna try it out a little more before i bite but i think i might want to spend the money, cheaper then vonage even
Earnest PettieAug 10th 2006 7:38PM
I actually received a pretty choice number by virtue of the strange availability of numbers. I put in my current address in Tulsa and discovered that no numbers were available for my area. I put in my old address for NYC, and poof! I got a New York number.