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Phone calls to and from India are pretty expensive, so I decided to try out Yahoo! Voice. The rates are extremely attractive for outgoing calls and having a UK number for people to call me makes everything so much easier.

After some initial problems with my headset, calls seem to be working pretty well. Quality dialling out can be a bit suspect, but when people call me it really works well.

My parents picked up a headset today as well, so I've had a quick call with them using the computer to computer calling (free) and the quality is perfect. Just at that point, my sister appeared online from Bangkok, so I've been sidelined and my parents and sister are chatting away quite happily. The Internet has helped the world shrink, and it just got that little bit smaller still.

As I sat twiddling my thumbs, waiting for my parents and sister to remember I was there, I thought 'wouldn't it be cool if there was a conference facility. Lo and behold, the plugin was announced last Monday and the service should be available within two weeks.

No wonder the mobile telcos are so keen to get into the broadband market (Orange first, now Vodafone) seeing as all that will be required soon is a mobile and broadband, although even that may reduced to 'a mobile' soon enough.