Yahoo messenger with Voice 7.5 - a no go for calling to Nigeria

As has been prevalent in the past, the tech companies trying to out do each other by first copying what ever new feature the other one has then adding a new feature to their software. Yahoo has released a beta for its Yahoo voice service with its Yahoo messenger pretty much the same thing as Skypein and Skypeout. You can get telephone numbers anywhere in US, UK and France for $29.90 a year or $2.99 a month with their “Phone in” service which is cheaper than Skype’s charge of 30 EUR and you can call countries all over the world (the cheapest being the US for 1 cent and it goes up from there)
The call charge to Nigeria is cheaper than Skype and the call credit are in $10 and $25 denominations. There is no pay by Paypal option so you have to divulge your credit card information (but its Yahoo so I guess it is safe).
The cost
Skype(USD) Yahoo(USD)
Nigeria Lagos 8.6 cents 8.9 cents
Nigeria Mobile 25.4 cents 19.0 cents
Niger Landline 11.7 cents 8.9 cents
UK Landline 2.1 cents 1.5 cents
UK Mobile 25.3 cents 17.0 cents
U.S.A. 2.1 cents 1 cent

I decided to try it out and my experience with the service is that it is nothing to write home about (I mean that literally too),.I tried calling Nigeria it connected but it was obvious that the party at the other end was having difficulty hearing me as they complained that there was a lot of jitter, to cut the long story short I tried calling 3 people in Lagos, Abuja and Benin and we couldn’t communicate. I use Skype all the time and although it doesn’t connect 100% of the time but you can have a decent communication and so far they can’t tell if its different form some of their not so great calling cards that are available.
The verdict if you want to use Voice stick with Skype, If you want call conferencing still stick with Skype and If you want Video conferencing go with MSN messenger ( now live messenger).