BellSouth's Rates
1:45 PM -- BellSouth has launched its consumer VOIP service using 8X8's Packet 8 solution, according to our exclusive report on Light Reading this morning.
Here's our story: BellSouth Launches Residential VOIP.
And here's another exclusive -- a sampling of international rates BellSouth plans to charge for connections to non-BellSouth VOIP customers:
Table 1: A Sample From BellSouth's Digital Phone Service (International Rates)
— Phil Harvey, Rate Sheet Philcher Editor, Light Reading
Here's our story: BellSouth Launches Residential VOIP.
And here's another exclusive -- a sampling of international rates BellSouth plans to charge for connections to non-BellSouth VOIP customers:
Table 1: A Sample From BellSouth's Digital Phone Service (International Rates)
| Country and City | Country Code | USD per Minute |
| Afghanistan | 93 | $0.71 |
| Argentina | 54 | $0.08 |
| Austria | 43 | $0.23 |
| Belgium | 32 | $0.29 |
| Brazil | 55 | $0.23 |
| Canada (Manitoba) | 1 | $0.00 |
| Colombia (Pereira) | 57 | $0.09 |
| France | 33 | $0.25 |
| Germany | 49 | $0.23 |
| Guatemala | 502 | $0.17 |
| Haiti (Port au Prince) | 509 | $0.18 |
| India (Punjab) | 91 | $0.15 |
| Iraq | 964 | $0.41 |
| Italy | 39 | $0.03 |
| UK | 44 | $0.27 |
| Vietnam | 84 | $0.36 |
| Zimbabwe | 263 | $0.17 |
| Note: BellSouth Digital Phone Service customers get free calling worldwide to one another. But calls to non-BellSouth customers are charged at the rates listed above, according to our sources. | ||
— Phil Harvey, Rate Sheet Philcher Editor, Light Reading
