Released: May 05, 2006

AOL offers customers free phone numbers

Source: By Kevin Maney, USA Today

AOL is close to unveiling a voice-over-Internet service, based on its AIM instant messenger, that would give any AIM user a local phone number for free.
Dubbed AIM Phoneline, the free number would only allow for incoming calls from any phone.

Still, it’s the first offer of a free number. To get a number that can be called on Skype costs about $4 a month.

An upgraded version, AIM Phoneline Unlimited, will cost $14.95 a month for calls to all local and long-distance numbers and 30 foreign countries. Calls must be made with a headset plugged into a computer and logged onto AIM through a broadband connection. AOL plans to launch the service in the top 50 U.S markets in late May.

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