![]() That firm charges $29.95 per month for a service enabling 6-way video calls, 10 chat rooms and 500 phone minutes. magazine rated three low-cost video chat services including ooVoo. While as many as 10 people can participate in a single video chat, the company says sound and visual quality are best with five or fewer people. Skype's Premium service, which costs $4.99 per day or $8.99 per month, enables three or more users to set up live telephone chats.For larger companies supporting major call centers with heavy web traffic and many service agents, the cost rises to $149 per month per agent. The company charges $99 per month per agent for firms with websites that report fewer than 50,000 unique visitors each month and have 100 or fewer customer service agents. Companies including LivePerson enables corporate service agents to provide instant assistance via instant messaging text to customers visiting their websites to shop or get other information. ![]() ![]() Businesses can use online chat for employee communication or for customer service.and Canada are free calling rates to other countries range from 2 cents to $4.99 per minute. During 2011, Gmail Voice calls to mobile and landlines in the U.S. Video chat is available to people with Gmail accounts who download a free plugin enabling telephone calling using Gmail.Skype also offers one-to-one video telephone calls to other Skype members. Skype, which offers the service for free, is one of the largest providers. Video chats are available to consumers with computers equipped with an internet connection, web camera and speakers.Chat room creators often invite new participants through posts on Twitter and other social media sites. permits anyone to create a free video conference room that as many as 400 can join.eBuddy says its technology enables customers with existing AOL, Google Talk, MSN, MySpace, Facebook, ICQ and Yahoo Messenger accounts to chat free without having to download or install applications on their computers. ooVoo allows up to six users to communicate via text chat at the same time. Free person-to-person chats through downloaded computer applications are available from several other companies, including Trillian, Digsby and MySpace and Yahoo! Messenger. Through social networking giant Facebook, consumers can hold free instant messaging sessions with others from their contact list. ![]() Gmail offers a free service that allows account holders to send instant person-to-person text messages to their contacts. ![]()
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