Teleo - Powerful Skype competitor

Filed in archive Technology on March 23, 2005

Robin Good reviews the powerful Skype competitor Teleo:

"Teleo allows you to place PC-to-PC calls to other Teleo users anywhere in the world for free, even over wi-fi connections and behind firewalls. Calls to your computer from regular telephones are also completely free.

Teleo service plans include the Teleo Phone, free PC-to-PC calling worldwide, pre-paid calls to regular telephones anywhere in the world for 2� per minute (except some cell phones outside the U.S.), crystal clear call quality, secure calling, call forwarding, call conferencing, integration with Outlook and IE, and online account management tools.

In addition, Teleo gives your PC an inbound phone number so people can call your desktop directly. The more economical Teleo Lite plan, only allows inbound calls from other PCs and not from regular telephones.

Teleo supports also conferencing calls with multiple people. You can mix into the conference call people on regular telephones as well as people on their PCs."

Wow - seems there is no disadvantage to Skype (besides it is not free). The site looks very professional and well built. Teleo also presented at Demo 2005. Very interesting. So I'm curious who will be investing in teh next round - Kleiner Perkins?