[colinsidoti]

Very interesting, I had no idea. A little more digging brings me here: http://bandwidth.com/about/read/verizonAgreement.html

"Bandwidth.com, Inc., a privately held telecommunications company in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, announced today that it has signed a commercial deal with the Verizon wireline companies under which the parties agree to terminate each other's VoIP traffic at a rate of $0.0007 per minute."

This is for landlines, but still a much lower number than I was expecting to see.

[dlikhten]

Remember, this is Verizon selling off bandwidth it does not need since it's unused. To V its like free money.

[jallmann]

There's still a carrying cost to that bandwidth inventory, so it's not completely free.