Voice over IP is essentially when one can use the Internet with their phone service. Why would someone want to do this? Well, for starters POTS and residential phone service has lots of taxes and surcharges, and is more expensive overall. VOIP is much cheaper and easier to manage.
This leads us to Vonage, a new startup VOIP company. Vonage is being pressured to sell itself. I really hope they do not, as the world has enough goliath telecom companies, and I think they are positioned quite nicely to grow and become one on their own.
MCI & Verizon are becoming one. SBC purchasing AT&T does not help competition.
Consolidation is bad for consumers, and when does it become an anti trust issue? Seeing Microsoft and their desktop Operating System monopoly reminds me our government really doesn't mind such things.
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