more on Re: AT&T, Vonage Cut Prices on Internet Calling

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
Date: October 10, 2004 6:58:15 AM EDT
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <dewayne-net () warpspeed com>
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Re: AT&T, Vonage Cut Prices on Internet Calling
Reply-To: dewayne () warpspeed com



[Note:  This comment comes from reader Steve Schear.  A clear case of  
the 'industry experts' missing the boat.  Steve cited the number of  
users who at anytime are online.  The number of Skype subscribers is in  
the millions.   In fact, its already over the 17.5 million that the  
Yankee Group forecasts for 2008.  DLH]

> From: Steve Schear <s.schear () comcast net>
> Date: October 9, 2004 11:45:25 PM PDT
> To: dewayne () warpspeed com
> Subject: Re: [Dewayne-Net] AT&T, Vonage Cut Prices on Internet Calling
>
> At 01:20 PM 9/30/2004, Dewayne Hendricks wrote:
> > AT&T, Vonage Cut Prices on Internet Calling
> >  Thu Sep 30, 2004 01:51 PM ET
> >
> >  By Justin Hyde
> > http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?  
> > type=technologyNews&storyID=6380857&src=rss/ 
> > technologyNews&section=news
>
>
> >  While industry experts estimate the current residential VOIP market
> > has less than 1 million subscribers, they expect sharp growth starting
> > in 2005 as large cable companies such as Comcast Corp. roll out their
> > VOIP services. Communications consulting firm Yankee Group forecasts
> > VOIP services will win 17.5 million residential users by 2008.
>
> Funny, the number of VoIP connected Skype users is over 800,000  
> regularly...
>
> steve


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