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Soon You Won't Pay Anything For Phone Calls

A collection of recent articles describes howsomething was up when with the future of your
Wi-Fi internet is going to bring with it manyphone service when eBay was willing to pay $4
benefits, but it will first have to overcomebillion to purchase the Voice over IP company
the opposition of telephone and cableSkype a few weeks ago.Over the past ten years
companies.Free Phone CallsAccording to eBay'sSBC (new name AT & T) and Verizon have spent
chief executive Meg Whitman, within a fewtens of billions of dollars building telecom
years, customers may be able to makeempires so they could dominate the industry
telephone calls for free, with no per-minuteand, without question, currently dominate the
charges, while the carriers make money onindustry as together they control nearly
advertising or transaction fees.Thistwo-thirds of all residential phone lines in
statement was made during a discussion ofthe US.But the Internet WILL change all that
eBay's purchase of web-based communicationsand these companies are not prepared for it.
phenomenon Skype Technologies. The company isThey will lose 40% of their land line
hoping that by combining electronic markets,residential customers over the next ten
online payment systems, and Web-basedyears. This week's NY Times also reported how
communications, it can become a leader in allthe smaller Internet providers, like
three areas.Skype allows members to make freeEarthlink, are battling these giants.It is
Web-based calls to each other, and has morebecoming increasingly clear that your
than 57 million registered users. EBayconnection to the Internet will replace your
believes Skype's growth will drive down voicephone service. The key will not to have a
communications costs down to nothing over thecell phone or a land line but an Internet
next three to six years.Rural Wi-FiOne majorconnection. Because if you have an Internet
hurdle in the growth of Voice Over Internetconnection, you will be able to get your
telephony, however, is the inconsistency ofphone service for free.Now I am not talking
Wi-Fi availability. So it's interesting toabout connecting your desktop or notebook
note that a desolate area in Oregon hasinto an Ethernet cable, but using a wireless
become the world's largest Wi-Fi hotspot, aconnection, in many ways not very different
region that stretches over 700 squarethan your cell phone. Currently the wireless
miles.Wireless projects in more metropolitaninternet is restricted to WiFi which is only
areas have been stymied by telephone andgood for hundreds of feet. However, that will
cable TV companies, which have spent largesoon change when WiFi is morphed into WiMax
amounts of money lobbying state and localand your connection will be good for 25 miles
governments to pass bills aimed ator more.You can start to see the trend.
discouraging competition.In the country,Google has offered tomake San Francisco
however, large corporations see little profitwireless last month, and now Philadelphia and
potential, which enabled wirelessas the article aboverural Oregonare close
entrepreneur Fred Ziari to build a $5 millionbehind.Lobbying from cable and phone
wireless network, at his own expense, withoutproviders have stymied many projects in major
restrictions. Already, the network hasurban markets across the country.
revolutionized the way business, emergencyPhiladelphia's plan to build a citywide WiFi
planning, and police work are conducted,network sparked state legislators (prompted
along with many other businesses andby phone and cable companies) to limit every
services.Ziari's network is free to theother town in the state to do the same
public; he is recouping his investmentthing!The biggest obstacle to creating these
through contracts with city and countycheap wireless networks isn't the building of
agencies and larger businesses.Even as Wi-Fithem, according to experts. According to the
hotspots continue to increase, with more thanWi-Fi Alliance, it's more a matter of
70,000 currently registered around the world,"who's-going-to-get-a-piece-of-the-action?".W
only a very few major cities have completehat Does All This Mean For YOU?One thing you
Wi-Fi access across their entirecan be certain of is change. So please be
area.Different Approaches to Wi-Fi forcareful about signing any long term contracts
CitiesHowever, a handful of municipalitieswith your phone company as it with virtually
across the nation using a variety ofnear certainty I can assure you that the
approaches to introduce full-coverage Wi-Fi,future of your phone service will not
in spite of the opposition from the telephoneresemble anything you have seen in the past
and cable companies. Rio Rancho, New Mexico,and, best of all, odds are very high it will
has a solution employing a network of 400be free.Next week I will be writing about the
access points, while Manassas, Virginia, iscell phone carrier that has just signed a
employing a broadband over power line (PBL)long-term contract with the US Defense
approach.Madison, Wisconsin is getting theirDepartment that seems to secure their
citywide Wi-Fi, with the help of a firmposition as the leading cell phone carrier in
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