Why waste money on monthly fee crap?

http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/skype/linksys-cit200-skype-phone-
review.asp

The Linksys CIT200 for Skype is a fantastic home phone for $80 (net
price).  Mine works way up the street.  If I hook its cell site/notebook
up in the car and logon to one of the many unsecured hotspots, say in the
mall parking lot, I can be 100-150 meters from the car, inside the mall,
and have perfect coverage with the little cell sitting on my car dash
outside.

Skype is free, of course, unless you want telephone interconnect.  Even
that is free until 2007 in the USA and Canada....from any hotspot on the
planet!  

Had the notebook hooked to Denny's hotspot the other morning out in the
parking lot.  Took my CIT200 into Denny's for breakfast and called a
Skype contact on the other side of the planet.  Perfectly clear VoIP
comms for the next hour, including his picture of Denny's from the inside
of my car over Skype on the laptop, live....(c;

At .017 Euro per minute to landlines in most civilized countries, $10 on
Skype goes a long ways!

Thanks, Cisco!....(wave)