With tons of VOIP services out there, I wonder why ICQ has come so late into the playground. I've used the VOIP services of MSN, Yahoo, Jajah and Skype in the past few weeks, with Skype being the best. Now we have ICQ coming out with their ICQ Phone service. The ICQ Phone service is an Internet-based voice calling service that lets ICQ 5.1 users outside of the United States and Hong Kong make affordable calls from personal computers to landlines and mobile phones worldwide. The PC-to-Phone voice service is now live and offers nothing new to the VOIP market such as one-click dialing, call logging, a phone book as well as account balance display.
The new service is supported by ICQ's new alliance with deltathree. It leverages exclusive components of the deltathree Outsourced Platform Solution, which integrates deltathree's robust back-office services with ICQ through custom designed XML (Extensible Markup Language) application programming interfaces (APIs). The relationship lets ICQ Phone users take advantage of an attractive and competitive "pay as you go" pricing plan with no initiation fees and no monthly contracts. Users have the option of paying via major credit card or PayPal.
ICQ Phone Service ropes in deltathree Solutions source
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