Voice Phone Calls to be Free Within Years: eBay CEO

In a few short years, users can expect to make telephone calls for free, with no per-minute charges, as part of a package of services through which carriers make money on advertising or transaction fees, eBay’s chief executive said on Wednesday.

“The percentage of users that you can actually charge for (phone services) will actually go down, so I actually agree with that and we understood that when we looked at Skype,” [eBay's Meg Whitman] said in responding to the analyst’s question. “In the end, the price that anyone can provide for voice transmission on the ‘Net will trend toward zero.”

Reuters