Showing posts with label digital voice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label digital voice. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
at&t to Launch VoIP Bundled with fiber
By the end of the year, at&t U-verse customers will be able to buy voice services running over the fiber-to-neighborhood service, instead of running a separate circuit-switched voice network to customer locations. The move signals that at&t is completely comfortable with the ruggedness and dependability of its VoIP offering, and is moving towards IP-based voice that can be interwoven with other services at&t plans to offer.
The move also is an early harbinger of a time when VoIP widely will be used as a standard replacement for landline voice, much as cable companies now use VoIP to deliver "digital voice" services that are feature equivalent with plain old telephone service but use IP technology.
The new VoIP offerng also will not be based on the CallVantage platform, because CallVantage "doesn't scale," at&t executives say.
The new VoIP product will be available in markets where at&t delivers U-verse TV.
at&t says its upgraded network will reach about eight million homes by the end of this year. The company intends to pass 18 million homes by the end of 2008.
Apparently at&t plans to move slowly offering VoIP services that run over Digital Subscriber Line, though.
From at&t's standpoint, that makes sense. Having watched IP, flat rate plans, competition, mobility, family plans and other forces wipe out much of the profit in long distance, VoIP stands poised to attack voice-based local access revenues as well. at&t will move, when it has to. But it is hard to fault them for not wanting to hasten the revenue decline from that product line.
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Gary Kim has been a communications industry analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology. These days he especially studies changing business models and strategies.He speaks frequently at conferences and spends quite a lot of time organizing conferences and content as well.
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