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Thursday, August 12, 2004

Covad latest to launch VoIP

Back in March of this year, Covad purchased Go-Beam for $48 million. So it was no surprise when they announced on Tuesday that they plan national VoIP rollout. Perhaps the only question is, who WON'T be offering VoIP? The ISPs are, the cable companies are, the long distance telcos are, the RBOCs are, I am, you are... do I even NEED a VoIP provider? Or is it just an application running on my desktop and mobile device that connects directly to an application on your desktop or mobile device... do I really need another bill from another utility? And government regulation to boot?

posted by Ted Shelton at 9:38 AM

1 Comments:

Blogger Andy said...

Ted,

You're right on. Everyone seems to be in the VoIP business. Local communities, wireless companies, just about anyone in some part of the world where VoIP is not regulated wants in the game.

I fully expect the wireless (i.e. cellular) companies to be in the VoIP business. Virgin, Richard Branson's company has to be at the very least looking at this. Then there are the big retailers. How hard would it be for fNac or WalMart to become a phone company using say, Peerio, or rebundling/rebranding one of the carriers or doing both.

The landscape will of course be dotted with many casualties. Consumers and businesses will have to be careful, but VoIP will be as common as cellular and will pass WiFi at some point in uptake rate.

Why? Everyone talks. Not everyone types.

8:15 AM  

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