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...with Google Talk, a Voice Over Internet Chat application that could be a threat to the continued survival of Skype. I haven't tried it yet and will report when I have done so.

Well... now I have used it - briefly, and it doesn't do too well on narrow-band - the messaging is fine, but the voice is pretty poor quality. Obviously broadband is needed, as it is with Skype. In fact, Skype performs marginally better on narrow-band, but it, too, really needs broadband.