Packet8 drops price of VideoPhone to $99

8x8, Inc. announced today that it has reduced the price of the Packet8 Broadband Consumer VideoPhone from $250 to $99 and decreased the monthly service fee from $29.95 to $19.95, effective immediately. Available direct to consumers at www.packet8.net, the newly-priced Packet8 VideoPhone is being sold with a two year service plan which includes unlimited voice and video calls worldwide to another Packet8 Videophone as well as unlimited local and long distance voice-only calls to any phone number in the U.S. or Canada. The $19.95 per month, 24 month service plan carries an early termination fee of $299. Existing Packet8 VideoPhone subscribers will see a decrease in their monthly service of $10 beginning with their May 1 billing statement.