Ok, I found a new VIoP service called ZingoTel. They have a pretty long list of available service areas, even through they may take a few days to process. The service will cost me 14.95 per month, and I’m getting all the bells and whistles I got with Lingo (not gonna send them any business). What follows is why I switched.
In true gamers fashion…. WTF?? This is definatly an odd-ball couple if I’ve ever seen one. Why would eBay, an auction house, buy Skype, a proprietary VoIP provider? The only thing I can see being serious about this is to make it easier for customers to contact eBay and PayPal customer service. Anything else would just be silly, considering how hard eBay makes it to even find a phone number and/or address for their place of business.
WOOT! It’s about frickin’ time! Speculation about this has been going on for the last couple of years. It’s gone from the “what if” stage to the “it’s here now” stage. 
That’s right! Google has become quite the “cool free stuff” company. They have put out their own IM/VoIP client and service. On top of that, you can also use any Jabber enabled IM client out there, but the Google client is simple and useful. Of course, you need to have a Gmail account to get it to work. If you don’t have one, send me a some feedback with your name and the email address you want me to send the invite to.
The people at SIPphone came up with this neat, standards based, FREE VoIP softphone called the Gizmo Project. It’s really a nice piece of software. One annoying thing though, you can only use it with their service. *shrugs* I guess it’s ok though, since they also offer it for FREE. What’s more is that their software and service has the functionality to rival Skype, a softphone based on a proprietary and closed technology and system. You should really look into it, as I have. As a matter of fact you can call me at sip:177460500226@proxy01.sipphone.com through your current VoIP softphone, if you have one already installed. 
