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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (64184)6/8/2003 1:14:53 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor  Read Replies (1) of 77400
 
nothing new here but still an interesting article

Internet calls to challenge telephone companies
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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.

siliconvalley.com

I don't know of too many companies using VoIP phones in the bay area except Cisco and some really tech forward companies. Gap, my favorite non-tech to watch, doesn't use VoIP phones and has no wifi access on the in house systems, although I am sure they will be eager to adopt these technologies once the mainstream adoption process starts.
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