Everything started up and ran perfectly, though once I made my first long-distance call, I found the voice quality lacking.

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MCI's long-distance call revenues could turn into an outright decline.

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Instead of tracking the cost of a long-distance phone call, for example, the new classification simply tracks the cost of telephone services.

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Most of them view it as a waste of time but a handful say that compared to making a long-distance phone call, it is still an inexpensive way to communicate with their friends and family who live in other countries.

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He wondered if the call was long-distance, if he should yell out to stop reading Scripture into the phone at twelve cents a minute.

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As a result, calls are charged at a much cheaper rate: long-distance and international calls can be made for the price of a local call and a home broadband-internet connection.

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All told, the quality didn't seem to be any better or worse than any other Skype call, which is to say it's totally workable for some long-distance conferencing.

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