Internet Telephony

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"When you're moving at Internet speed, you're not going to wait 100 years to form relationships [as a telephony service provider], and besides, there would be too many relationships because this part of telephony is not restricted to national monopolies, it's got a lot of small players" (Dunlap, 1998, 189). When perfected, Internet Telephony, or the merging of telephony and Internet will allow people to communicate using a number of media simultaneously. Internet Telephony, or the practice of consumers and businesses turning to the Internet for voice and fax phone calls, according to a 1997 study, could end up costing phone companies some $8 billion in lost revenues worldwide over the next four years."

From the Paper:

"INTERNET TELEPHONY: TECHNOLOGY IN SEARCH OF ACCEPTANCE

Introduction
"When you're moving at Internet speed, you're not going to wait 100 years to form relationships [as a telephony service provider], and besides, there would be too many relationships because this part of telephony is not restricted to national monopolies, it's got a lot of small players" (Dunlap, 1998, 189). When perfected, Internet Telephony, or the merging of telephony and Internet will allow people to communicate using a number of media simultaneously. Internet Telephony, or the practice of consumers and businesses turning to the Internet for voice and fax phone calls, according to a 1997 study, could end up costing phone companies some $8 billion in lost revenues worldwide over the next four years."

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