EQO frees Canada

Unlike in the US and most other developed countries, Canadians have been paying hefty fees for long-distance and calls between cities. According to EQO, that’s about to change as they’ve announce their new “plan for Canada,” to enable its countryman (EQO is from Vancouver) to call from their mobile phones to anywhere in Canada and 30 different countries for only 2.6 cents per minute. To put it in a perspective, full hour worth of calling will cost only $1.56.

Naturally, EQO-to-EQO calls are/remain free (just like with Skype) and so is the IM service on all major services (MSN, AIM, Yahoo!, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Talk, ICQ and Jabber). Plus, to further sweeten the deal, EQO is offering a bonus of up to an hour and a half of free calling if you sign-up soon.

There you have it, people of Canada are suddenly free. Scrap that, only the ones living in major cities, including Calgary, Edmonton, Halifax, Hamilton, Kitchener, London, Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec City, Saint John’s, Sherbrooke, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria and Winnipeg.