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December 25, 2003

Bezeq (and others) do not understand Free World Dialup

Yesterday I started receiving email from people who told me that Free World Dialup was covered in a story carried in Israel on Israel TV Channel 2. The story was given 3 minutes during prime viewing time and from what I was told, the story positioned FWD against the incumbent Israeli operator Bezeq. The Beqeq spokesperson didn’t have many kind words for FWD.

I guess it is stories of “us vs. them” that sells newspapers and gets viewers talking. But had Channel 2 actually contacted somebody from the FWD team, they might have learned that it is not an “us vs. them” situation. All that we are trying to do is spread some holiday cheer around the world and along the way get people to experience voice over broadband for the very first time.

Hopefully future coverage of Free World Dialup by other media will be a closer representation to our intended reality.

Posted by jeff on December 25, 2003 03:13 AM | Permalink

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Comments

I support what Mark said, it's a great service, I just moved to New York a few months ago and this helps lower my costs to contact my friends and family...
Happy Holidays!!!!!
:)

Posted by: Etty at December 26, 2003 04:31 AM

You are doing a tremendous service to break the monopoly of national phone companies such as the BEZEQ here in Israel-although this might not be your initial purpose.Chan 2 made the story just as another "item" to show that it is possible to get cheep calls...
In any case your project (although I personally am still trying to figure out why i can't call anyone) is a blessed and excellent project.

Posted by: Mark Becker at December 25, 2003 03:25 AM