This morning Adam O. reported on Jajah and Jangl's new hopes for ad-supplemented VoIP service options, and found that the actual implementation of in-call ads may not be as bad as we all anticipated. So now that the industry has whole-heartedly accepted the supplementation options of advertising inserted somehow into our phone calls, perhaps the general public will follow suit?
If not, the trend is still approaching, meaning that all these new options out there for lowering phone costs, getting call information delivered in various formats, and customizing your phone service will be ad-supported, since we're all cheapskates. The recently funded YouMail is the latest to announce advertising for its service.
[img src="" caption="" credit="" alt=""]While YouMail isn't a VoIP service, and doesn't allow you to make free calls, it is a service that's related to your phone, and it's inserting ads in order to continue to offer it up for free. You may recall that YouMail is the quirky service that lets you customize your voice mail greeting depending on who's calling you, and even offers call-blocking and hang-up options for those pesky exes.