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Om writes about a report that AT&T and a group of major international telcos like British Telecom, Deutsche Telecom and NTT are thinking of making a free VoIP system. The reason for it is that voice is a "losing proposition" these days in the face of Skype and landline attrition. The system would eventually be moved to cellphones and would be launched in 2009. One problem: The report is so far mostly theory, even if the writer does have a good track record. [Om]
AT&T and Other Telcos Thinking of Skype Combatant?
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7:30 PM on Tue May 6 2008
By Brian Lam
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What's interesting Brian is AT&T already offers VoIP. They call it CallVantage and U-Verse Voice/Phone. For AT&T customers it's $19.99 for non-customers it's $24.99. The big difference is they will connect and wire the VoIP TA to your existing phone line network in the house.
Unless AT&T is developing a seperate application to Skype, they have the service and are using it to stabalize land line loss.
Everything is just theory.
@yoshi: For that matter, so does NTT. And I'm willing to bet...something that BT and Telekom have VoIP too. Link it all and bam, there it is. Easier said than done, but it's not like they have to build from scratch.
Whatever they do I will stay with Skype its the right choice.
As for ATT and International carriers: I am tired of paying those thieves for speaking with my family.
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