Similarly, E-mail, Internet networking and cheap phone calls have made it easy to maintain a lot of relationships.

同样，电子邮件、互联网和廉价电话使我们便于维护大量的关系。

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Instead of fibre-optic cable, which provides for cheap phone calls and YouTube-friendly surfing, its 200m or so people have had to rely on satellite links.

该地区约2亿的人口通过卫星链接上网，而不是使用光纤电缆（这种方式可以让人们廉价地电话通话，并进行网上冲浪。）

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My iPhone complex hasn't disappeared, but at least now I have a device that looks just like it, has no monthly service fees, and lets me make free or cheap phone calls.

我的iPhone情节并没有消退，但是起码我有了一个和iPhone很像的这么一个设备，也没有每月产生的通话费用，让我免费或便宜打电话。

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While Skype was initially popular with techies, it increasingly worked its way into the mainstream by offering free or cheap phone calls which were especially appealing to international callers.

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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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Basically, by offering dirt-cheap calls via mobile devices, Microsoft may have an edge as it tries to push its Windows Phone 7 operating system.

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