Yahoo! and AT&T form Yahoo! AT&T to offer VoIP services

There is good news for all the users of Yahoo! Messenger and regular users of AT&T Yahoo! High Speed Internet subscribers and all Yahoo! users in AT&T's traditional 13-state local service area. Yahoo! has now tied up with AT&T to launch VoIP services.

With this new feature the consumers in the US can make PC-to-PC phone calls using the VoIP technology. The pricing has been kept low to make it very attractive. For now the calls within the US to over 30 countries for under two cents per minute. Yahoo! also allows users to receive calls from regular landlines and mobiles for a fixed fee of approximately $3 per month. These also comes with a Phone IN and a Phone Out feature

PHONE IN:
Yahoo! offers the users with a regular PTSN number for a small fee allowing them to receive calls anywhere in the world.

PHONE OUT:
Yahoo! consumers in the US can make VoIP PC to phone calls to call to land lines or mobile phones in more than 180 countries. Rates of the calls to over thirty countries are fixed at two cents a minute.

Yahoo! and AT&T are cementing their alliance, which began in 2001. It no small matter then that Yahoo! aims at making Yahooing an experience to remember.