Lingo, Vonage, AT&T Fight for VOIP Market
VoIP, or Broadband Internet Phones are still only slightly more reliable than cell phones, but the price is hard to beat. More an more carriers are jumping on the bandwagon. Vonage is the market leader, but they are joined by Lingo, Packet8, SpeakEasy, Verizon VoiceWing and AT&T CallVantage. AT&T may be late to the party, but they have deep pockets and now that they are out of the consumer long distance business, they can go after voice over IP in a big way. Prices are already under $20 for unlimited plans.
March 28th, 2005 at 4:42 am
I think a rate race will begin among the existing market leaders of conventional phone comapnies. Many other small entrepreneurs will grow at the same time. As a result of it end users will get the benefit of distant phone service at low cost. But make sure these existing leading companies should get the monopoly of new VOIP technology. Technocrat should dominate them rather than be dominated and keep the whole business available to all ends of the world. Do not encourage any kind of monopoly in terms of new technology.