How Are the Big Companies Introducing VoIP?
The top dogs are betting that consumers will soon change how they make phone calls lessening the need for a phone line from a old school telecoms company. VoIP essentially turns telephone calls into data which is transferred via 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 VoIP market with an instant chat and voice app and is testing a wireless customer service that has the potential to deliver data to wireless devices.
The tech companies are already beginning to sell double function products such as digital cameras that appear to be a normal digital camera but when a person slides the back of the device down, it reveals a full keyboard. Memory sticks that store from 64 megabytes to 1 gigabyte preloaded with a softphone are also now available. They come with a microphone and earphones.
Companies such as Google, Yahoo, and EarthLink have already played around with such technology. Last spring Yahoo added improved Voice over IP calling to its Yahoo Messenger. Google has debuted Google Talk. AOL announced it would be offering its 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.
Its probably accurate to say the phone companies will face a challenge with these drastic changes emerging with VoIP technology.
