Is Yahoo going to start charging a monthly fee to use things like messenger?
150842
that comes up as long as I've been using it... nearly once maybe twice a year.  It's an email scam for sure.  I have seen it so many times in the last several years.. I just delete now... If they do, people will just go else where
176704
your already using yahoo for free....
974854
Yahoo messenger can do that.
895785
hmm i think they already have something like that, there is a client for gmail that checks for e-mail and it also works as a messenger..just like yahoo/aim/msn/icq/etc...never used it but i saw it somewhere...
643043
Ebay and Yahoo! have decided to work together in complimentary areas. Microsoft and Yahoo! have also decided to merge their instant messengers this summer. Outright buying or merging of any of these companies seems improbable for now! :-)
522201
Yahoo charges a fee for this service, Premium package.
813289
Yes, it does cost something.  It depends on your telephone company.  Where I live I think it costs about $1 every time you use it.
250845
Although Yahoo is free, certain areas will charge a monthly fee such as Yahoo Music Unlimited, certain Yahoo downloadable games, and some mobile services. Although they are great about giving you a free trial to test their products out.
2291
Yahoo is launching the VOIP service around March 2006. Yahoo’s Phone Out VoIP service will let users make calls from their PC to non-VoIP enabled traditional landlines and cell phones located in over 180 countries. Calls within the United States will cost $0.01 per minute. Calls to 30 other countries such as Australia, France, Germany and Japan will be priced at less than $0.02 per minute. Yahoo will also make prepaid call plans available, priced in increments of $10 and $25.\n\nThe Phone In VoIP service will let users receive calls from traditional landlines or cell phones on their PC and will be priced at $2.99 per month, or £29.90 per annum. Users subscribed to Yahoo Phone In will be able to choose a phone number in a different country so calls originating from the country will be charged at a local rate. Subscribers will also be able to select multiple phone numbers for use when traveling.\n\nThe Phone Out and Phone In VoIP services will be made easily accessible from a toolbar that will let the user send instant messages, send email and SMS, as well as make calls. A beta of both Yahoo VoIP services will be made available in Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Singapore and Spain soon.
979362
Hello.  They're still in beta and are looking to charge commission when they move out of beta. They say 15%, so I guess it won't be free for ever and yes, there is a catch!  I guess they have to pay for their technology and people somehow.  Good luck with your business though!
52567
There are paid Yahoo! Mail services for people who wish to have neater mail organization like businessmen and so.\nI have not found paid Yahoo! Messenger yet.\n\nNonetheless, no matter how free they claim about their services, we are STILL paying them in however way and unnoticed about that.
1071342
I'll tell you right now...Yahoo is RETARDED and has been becoming increasingly so over the past 6 months. Looks like it costs too much to offer those premium services for free so they don't try so hard. If I were you I'd switch to Skype.com. The picture is so much clearer. AND...you can have audio AND chat as you view. Yahoo's going to the dogs.
887437
Yes, but it is free, and i love yahoo. I think its way better to use then anything else. Just sighn him up for a  free yahoo acount and then download yahoo messenger, add you or him to your /his list and chat !
446426
you can only do it if you upgrade yahoo & pay for it
246927
There's no way (as far as I know) that you CAN pay anything for it even if you want to!\n\n(Just like Yahoo Messenger itself - TOTALLY free, unless you want "extras" like PC-to-Phone etc, but anything you WILL be charged for, relax, they always let you know first - and IF you've never given them your credit card details, then rest assured you won't accidentally stumle onto anything that will result in your incurring any debt.)
721247
you have to pay to do that with yahoo.
591374
I have never heard of that happening before nor do I recall ever hearing that from Microsoft. It sounds to me like someone is trying to scam you. I use both Yahoo and Messenger at the same time and I don't get forced off of one or the other.