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1 Cent Per Minute Calling to All U.S. Phone Numbers With Gizmo Project; VoIP Service Offers Lowest Price to Call U.S.


SAN DIEGO San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay.  -- Gizmo Project Gizmo Project is the name of a peer-to-peer VoIP network and of a proprietary freeware soft phone for that network.

Gizmo Project was founded by Michael Robertson.[1]
, free voice communication software for your computer, announces 1 cent per minute calling to U.S. phones effective immediately.

This marks the lowest per minute rate for calling U.S. phone numbers. This new rate makes calling the U.S. twice as affordable as compared to Skype and Yahoo.

A comparison of per minute calling rates to U.S. phone numbers (as of 12/12/05):

Gizmo Project: 1 cent

Skype: 2.1 cents

Yahoo Messenger See Yahoo! Messenger. : 2 cents

MSN Messenger Microsoft's instant messaging (IM) service, which provides text messaging and voice calling. Part of the MSN Network, MSN Messenger clients are available for non-XP versions of Windows, Mac, Pocket PC and MSN TV. For Windows XP, the IM client is Windows Messenger. : 2.3 cents

AOL Instant Messenger See AIM. : $18.99 per month + 4 cents per minute

Google Talk Google's instant messaging (IM) service, which provides text messaging and voice calling. It provides a link to the user's Gmail account as well as displays the number of unread messages in the inbox. : Cannot call U.S. phones

"Phone calls are now like water. You know there's a cost, but you don't think about it every time you turn on the faucet," said Gizmo Project CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  Michael Robertson. "The era of annual commitments and monthly fees are going the way of the rotary phone."

Gizmo Project is free software for your computer that allows you to make and receive phone calls. Anyone can download the software at www.gizmoproject.com and call the world for free using their computer and a headset. Calls between Gizmo Project users are completely free, but calls to regular phones have a small per minute fee.

Since its debut in July 2005, Gizmo Project has had over 300,000 sign-ups and is available for Windows, Mac and Linux.

Gizmo Project members can purchase calling minutes on a "pay-as-you-go" basis with a credit card or using Paypal. There is no cost to sign-up, no contracts, and no monthly fees.

Gizmo Project is the most feature rich software available for voice calling and includes many advanced calling and communication features: free voicemail, free conference calling between regular phones and Gizmo Project, call recording, call forwarding, instant messaging, call mapping, call hold, and call blocking.

For more information about Gizmo Project please go to http://www.gizmoproject.com or contact: Jason Droege, pr@sipphone.com.
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