Just a quick note: People from the UK have test-called me successfully
using www.dialpad.com.  It's really quite remarkable.  The faster the
caller's modem the better the sound quality seems to be (56k was good).

I may put a link on my web site to this so people can call me right off
their computer and ask questions, or even request a roll preview before
placing an order.  (Is my phone going to be ringing at 3 in the morning
now?)

There are other creative uses for this: calling your answering machine
to retrieve messages, etc.  What other MM applications could stand to
benefit from this free technology?

Karl Ellison

 [ I have used one of these services successfully.  You need pretty
 [ good bandwidth.  Anyone with DSL is in great shape.  I now have
 [ both cable and DSL.  In my case the cable is better, although
 [ I'm not sure that is always true.  -- Jody