14 September 2006

Warsaw - Talking on the phone will be free within a decade, Niklas Zennstrom, creator of the globally popular free internet communicator Skype predicted Thursday in Warsaw.

'Skype's vision has always been to make everyone around the world talk for free,' he said.

'In ten years' time all telephone calls will certainly be free, whether you're calling someone on a computer or telephone,' he said.

Zennstrom also outlined a revolutionary Skype project in France which allows all Skype users there to make free calls to land-line telephones in the country.