Lisa Minter
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Mon Nov 29, 2004 9:55 pm Post subject:
Internet Phone Service Cuts Down on Interruptions |
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http://www.newsday.com/business/printedition/ny-txgearbox4057038nov28,0,6782652.story?coll=ny-business-print
BY JOHN MORAN
THE HARTFORD COURANT
Own a telephone, someone once said, and you give 6 billion people the
right to wake you up in the middle of the night. Fortunately, most
can't be bothered.
But even that possibility highlights what a stupid and unruly brute
the traditional telephone is. Someone calls, the phone rings, and you
are bound to answer it -- or at least be interrupted by it.
Internet telephone service -- otherwise known as voice over Internet
protocol, or more simply VOIP -- promises to change all that, offering
consumers sweeping and sophisticated control over how the phone works
at an affordable price.
Full story at:
http://www.newsday.com/business/printedition/ny-txgearbox4057038nov28,0,6782652.story?coll=ny-business-print |
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