Good bye EQO, welcome TerraNet

The future of mobile phone calls is peer-to-peer. Lets hope it works! I'm not sure how EQO is doing these days as I got fed-up with using it. It just didn't seem to work that well on my mobile and I couldn't convince enough friends to use it so it wasn't really worth it financially (see my previous post). I think the peer-to-peer system could work well but it ultimately depends on how many people use it. When you think of how many people share their wireless connection say in New York compared to here in the UK, you might in fact think that it will never work in the UK because we are too selfish. We will just have to wait and see.

EQO mobile: the way I see it

Well it has markedly improved. It is easier to install and it doesn't use Skype anymore so you do not need to leave your computer running Skype.
But now you have an additional company to buy credit from instead of Skype credit. The other down side is that now you cannot IM for free Skype users sitting in front of their computers. You can only communicate for free with people who have installed EQO mobile on their phones and this is not entirely free as you have to pay your network provider for data transfer (unless you have an all inclusive deal). I think that EQO mobile has now lost interesting functionality. O.K. it was a pain to have your computer on all the time but at least you could communicate with the millions of Skype users. Additionally, the costs of EQO calls to Mexico for example are higher than they use to be with the Skype set-up.