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voip and Japan
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 08:48:28 -0400
------ Forwarded Message From: Dan Gillmor <dgillmor () sjmercury com> Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 05:38:55 -0700 To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: Fyi http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6041583.htm When Manako Matsumoto, a Japanese homemaker, makes a phone call to her parents, her voice travels through the phone company's lines for a portion of the call. But she doesn't pay the normal per-minute charges. That's because she uses an Internet telephone, as do her parents. And so do more than 2 million other people in Japan. They are customers of the world's largest consumer-level deployment of ``voice over Internet Protocol'' (VoIP) technology, which converts voices into data packets that are transmitted over the Internet and reconstituted as sound on the other side. While Japan is leading the pack in this emerging service, there's little doubt that VoIP is taking off globally. According to Cisco Systems, one of the major players in the field, sales of VoIP equipment are growing at better than 35 percent a year. The transition is going relatively slowly in the United States, at least so far, but it is inevitable. Two factors make VoIP virtually unstoppable: the continuing evolution of communications technology and cost. ------ End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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