Comments on: MCI VoIP, Powered by Net2Phone http://gigaom.com/2005/06/29/mci-voip-powered-by-net2phone/ Trusted Insights and Conversations on the Next Wave of Technology Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:47:41 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: kotsengkuba http://gigaom.com/2005/06/29/mci-voip-powered-by-net2phone/#comment-929827 kotsengkuba Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:57:25 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/06/29/mci-voip-powered-by-net2phone/#comment-929827 <p>Why SIP is always associated with VOIP. I know VOIP but I'm totally clueless with SIP. I can't believe I was wasting too much money making international calls when I could actually save a fortune by using <a href="http://www.kotsengkuba.com/unlimited-telebabad-to-anywhere-in-the-world/" rel="nofollow">VOIP</a> and Skype. Now I'm enjoying unlimited PC to Landline and Mobile calls to 20 countries for only $11.55 per month. How cheap could that be ;-)</p> Why SIP is always associated with VOIP. I know VOIP but I’m totally clueless with SIP. I can’t believe I was wasting too much money making international calls when I could actually save a fortune by using VOIP and Skype. Now I’m enjoying unlimited PC to Landline and Mobile calls to 20 countries for only $11.55 per month. How cheap could that be ;-)

]]> By: Thomas Hirsch http://gigaom.com/2005/06/29/mci-voip-powered-by-net2phone/#comment-17888 Thomas Hirsch Wed, 29 Jun 2005 23:22:49 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/06/29/mci-voip-powered-by-net2phone/#comment-17888 <p>Interesting that MCI is offering residential VoIP. It has greatly de-emphasized providing telephone service to residential consumers, but probably is afraid it will lose most of the remaining customers if it does not implement VoIP fast. Seems to indicate power of upcoming transformation of telephony by VoIP.</p> <p>For MCI's de-emphasis of residential business, leading to an 18 percent decline in revenue in that segment year-over-year, see</p> <p><a href="http://global.mci.com/about/investor_relations/news/news2.xml?newsid=14711&mode=long&lang=en&width=530&root=/about/investor_relations/&langlinks=off">press release</a></p> Interesting that MCI is offering residential VoIP. It has greatly de-emphasized providing telephone service to residential consumers, but probably is afraid it will lose most of the remaining customers if it does not implement VoIP fast. Seems to indicate power of upcoming transformation of telephony by VoIP.

For MCI’s de-emphasis of residential business, leading to an 18 percent decline in revenue in that segment year-over-year, see

press release

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