Whats the Big Deal with VoIP? October 12, 2008
Posted in : Better Telecommunication, Technology Management , trackbackTechnology executives are confident consumers will soon change how they make phone calls reducing the need for a phone line from a old school telecoms company. VoIP essentially turns telephone calls into just another piece of software running over an IP network, and due to this simplicity the future for VoIP seems pregnant with possibilites.
Ever since Skype introduced software for voice calls on computers the industry has been buzzing. Google has entered the internet telephony industry with an IM and voice application and is testing a wireless consumer service that has the potential to deliver data to wireless devices.
The technology companies are already starting to launch dual purpose products such as cameras which appear standard but when a person slides the back of the camera down, there’s a keypad for making calls. Memory sticks preloaded with a softphone are also now available. They come with a microphone and earphones.
Companies such as Google, Yahoo, and EarthLink have already experimented with this technology. Last summer Yahoo added improved Voice over IP calling to its its instant messenger program. Google has also released Google Talk. AOL announced it would be providing a VoIP service called TotalTalk. AOL’s TotalTalk will essentially let people replace their traditional landlines. It has advanced communication features, such as unified voice, e-mail and instant messaging, and call-management.
It could be argued the phone companies will face a huge challenge with these drastic changes emerging with VoIP technology.
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