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From: Frank A. Coluccio6/29/2005 11:29:44 PM
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Skype’s Challenge
by Gordon Cook

The most attractive new form of Internet telephony is also the most threatening to corporate security — for now.

It was one of those little-noticed incidents that in hindsight turned out to be a significant hint of something big to come. In February 2004, Daiwa Securities analyst James Enck wrote in the Web log EuroTelcoblog ( eurotelcoblog.blogspot.com ) that project teams at the consulting firm Accenture were bypassing their usual mode of communication — mobile phones equipped with GSM, a widely used protocol for enhanced privacy and security — during a shared job between Madrid and Pakistan. The teams had become frustrated with the erratic connections and dropped lines. Instead, according to Mr. Enck, they used Skype, a renegade Internet-based telephone service. They took this route “for obvious cost reasons,” said Mr. Enck, “but also because of the superior” voice quality.

Cont. at: strategy-business.com
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