IP: Internet Phones starting to take off in Japan...

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Richard Shockey <richard () shockey us>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 10:04:12 -0400
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Internet Phones starting to take off in Japan...


http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/08/20/internet.voice.ap/index.html

TOKYO, Japan (AP) -- For years, the high cost of phone calls was the biggest
obstacle to Internet growth. These days, that curse is proving to be a bit
of a blessing. 

As always-on broadband Internet service becomes more available, towering
tariffs for traditional voice calls are encouraging adoption of a technology
that has yet to make much headway with consumers elsewhere: voice over
Internet. 

More than 300,000 people have signed up for the service from BB Technologies
Corp., a subsidiary of Tokyo Internet company Softbank Corp. That's easily
more than three times the estimated U.S. consumer market.

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