One-half of all Internet households are interested in VoIP, according to new research from Parks Associates. Interest in these services is disproportionately among subscribers with high monthly phone bills, and cost savings is the primary driver. Furthermore, interest in VoIP service is consistent among both broadband (52%) and narrowband (48%) households.
The Residential Voice-over-IP: Analysis & Forecasts survey sampled 3,300 households about their views on prospective services. http://www.parksassociates.com
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You just read about VoIP. Here is what it replaced:
POTS / PSTN served from 1876. What ultimately replaced it?
POTS / PSTN analog voice carried as a continuous electrical signal over a copper loop to a circuit-switched exchange, which set up an end-to-end dedicated path for the duration of the call. Its job passed to VoIP — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
