Our question is simple: Do you prefer Skype or Google Voice for your VoIP and phone calls?

我们的问题很简单：当你在使用VoIP和拨打电话时，你更喜欢Skype还是Google Voice ？

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Skype and other VOIP companies threaten to undermine incumbent operators' pricing structures and gradually to wipe out the traditional, high-margin telephone business.

SKYPE及其它VOIP公司扬言要破坏现有电信运营商的定价体系并逐步清除利润高额的传统电话业务。

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By virtue of their very design, VoIP services like Skype are inherently more collaborative than old school telephony.

借助他们适当的设计，像Skype这样的VoIP服务本质上比老式的电话通讯更具有协作理念。

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While most of the smartphones are capable of making Skype and other VoIP calls, they may not offer the connectivity to different networks, or a screen that is actually designed for the Internet and other functions.

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This means that if you purchase a local micro-SIM card (the ones compatible with the new iPad) you can make and receive phone calls on Skype or other VoIP service for about two cents a minute, in contrast to the high cost of roaming voice calls based upon all of the U.S. carriers pricing plans.

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Skype's PR peeps are blasting out press releases about how SkypeOut (which lets you use Skype's VoIP software to make cheap calls to the regular phone lines) has finally reached one million users, but we're way more interested in the more stealthy news that they're testing a new beta which supports SkypeIn, which lets people with regular phone lines call you.

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