Soon You Won't Pay Anything For Phone Calls

A collection of recent articles describes how Wi-FiComment:You had to know something was up
internet is going to bring with it many benefits,when with the future of your phone service when
but it will first have to overcome the oppositioneBay was willing to pay $4 billion to purchase the
of telephone and cable companies.Free PhoneVoice over IP company Skype a few weeks
CallsAccording to eBay's chief executive Megago.Over the past ten years SBC (new name AT
Whitman, within a few years, customers may be& T) and Verizon have spent tens of billions of
able to make telephone calls for free, with nodollars building telecom empires so they could
per-minute charges, while the carriers makedominate the industry and, without question,
money on advertising or transaction fees.Thiscurrently dominate the industry as together they
statement was made during a discussion ofcontrol nearly two-thirds of all residential phone
eBay's purchase of web-based communicationslines in the US.But the Internet WILL change all
phenomenon Skype Technologies. The company isthat and these companies are not prepared for it.
hoping that by combining electronic markets,They will lose 40% of their land line residential
online payment systems, and Web-basedcustomers over the next ten years. This week's
communications, it can become a leader in allNY Times also reported how the smaller Internet
three areas.Skype allows members to make freeproviders, like Earthlink, are battling these giants.It
Web-based calls to each other, and has moreis becoming increasingly clear that your connection
than 57 million registered users. EBay believesto the Internet will replace your phone service.
Skype's growth will drive down voiceThe key will not to have a cell phone or a land line
communications costs down to nothing over thebut an Internet connection. Because if you have
next three to six years.Rural Wi-FiOne majoran Internet connection, you will be able to get
hurdle in the growth of Voice Over Internetyour phone service for free.Now I am not talking
telephony, however, is the inconsistency of Wi-Fiabout connecting your desktop or notebook into
availability. So it's interesting to note that aan Ethernet cable, but using a wireless connection,
desolate area in Oregon has become the world'sin many ways not very different than your cell
largest Wi-Fi hotspot, a region that stretches overphone. Currently the wireless internet is restricted
700 square miles.Wireless projects in moreto WiFi which is only good for hundreds of feet.
metropolitan areas have been stymied byHowever, that will soon change when WiFi is
telephone and cable TV companies, which havemorphed into WiMax and your connection will be
spent large amounts of money lobbying state andgood for 25 miles or more.You can start to see
local governments to pass bills aimed atthe trend. Google has offered tomake San
discouraging competition.In the country, however,Francisco wireless last month, and now Philadelphia
large corporations see little profit potential, whichand as the article aboverural Oregonare close
enabled wireless entrepreneur Fred Ziari to build abehind.Lobbying from cable and phone providers
$5 million wireless network, at his own expense,have stymied many projects in major urban
without restrictions. Already, the network hasmarkets across the country. Philadelphia's plan to
revolutionized the way business, emergencybuild a citywide WiFi network sparked state
planning, and police work are conducted, alonglegislators (prompted by phone and cable
with many other businesses and services.Ziari'scompanies) to limit every other town in the state
network is free to the public; he is recouping histo do the same thing!The biggest obstacle to
investment through contracts with city andcreating these cheap wireless networks isn't the
county agencies and larger businesses.Even asbuilding of them, according to experts. According
Wi-Fi hotspots continue to increase, with moreto the Wi-Fi Alliance, it's more a matter of
than 70,000 currently registered around the world,"who's-going-to-get-a-piece-of-the-action?".What
only a very few major cities have complete Wi-FiDoes All This Mean For YOU?One thing you can
access across their entire area.Differentbe certain of is change. So please be careful
Approaches to Wi-Fi for CitiesHowever, a handfulabout signing any long term contracts with your
of municipalities across the nation using a varietyphone company as it with virtually near certainty I
of approaches to introduce full-coverage Wi-Fi, incan assure you that the future of your phone
spite of the opposition from the telephone andservice will not resemble anything you have seen
cable companies. Rio Rancho, New Mexico, has ain the past and, best of all, odds are very high it
solution employing a network of 400 accesswill be free.Next week I will be writing about the
points, while Manassas, Virginia, is employing acell phone carrier that has just signed a long-term
broadband over power line (PBL)contract with the US Defense Department that
approach.Madison, Wisconsin is getting theirseems to secure their position as the leading cell
citywide Wi-Fi, with the help of a firm supplyingphone carrier in the US.This article is reprinted
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