Just a few years ago, businesses chose telecom providers based primarily on calling rates.
It provides free calls and text messages within the US and Canada and has some of the lowest international calling rates around.
Skype is well known for its low-cost, long-distance calling rates, and makes a good chunk of its revenue from international calls to landlines and cellphones.
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On the tax front, rather than a move toward lower, more simplified tax rates, the Obama administration is calling for higher rates, most notably on the rich.
Employers and trade unions alike have made themselves hoarse calling for interest rates to be cut.
There are two phone numbers and two separate carrier plans to manage, which often means different minutes and calling and text rates.
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Mr Garcia strikes a more populist note, attacking privatised utilities and calling for lower interest rates.
Mr. Fisher dissented five times in 2008, either calling for higher interest rates or objecting to committee moves to lower rates.
Economists became vocal in calling for reduced tax rates, and policymakers responded.
Just think of mobile phone plans with special rates for calling other mobiles, free calls among family members, introductory offers, cancellation clauses, ring tones, roaming agreements and tracking minutes against plans which change anytime marketing comes up with some new program.
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With the U.S. Federal Reserve calling for near zero interest rates through mid 2013, that leaves the U.S. dollar on the bearish side of an interest rate differential play.
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Market participants have been calling on the central bank to cut rates to help revive investment and kick-start sputtering growth, which is at its slowest pace in a decade.
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MPC's half-point cut in interest rates last month, is now calling for a repeat performance on December 10th.
Now, President Obama is calling on Congress to put forward legislation to stop interest rates from doubling.
Tuliau Sarah Faletoese Su'a, assistant chief executive for strategic planning, policy and research for Samoa's ministry of health, would like to see the definitions changed, calling it "hurtful" to be known for such high rates of obesity.
Obama is also calling for a revenue neutral overhaul of the corporate tax which would lower rates by reducing deductions and loopholes.
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Since the basic Skype service doesn't cost a dime, it threatens to popularize the idea of free calling, and make it difficult for phone companies to continue to charge today's high rates.
Separately, Bloomberg reports that the Maestro himself, Alan Greenspan, is so concerned about a sudden sharp increase in interest rates that every day he checks the rate of the 10-year note and 30-year bond calling them the critical Achilles heel of the economy.
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