IP PROGRESSES, AMID CONFUSION.
Multichannel News, December, 1998 by DAWSON, FRED
ANAHEIM, CALIF. Vendors and the PacketCable task force reported progress on several fronts in IP telephony last week, but not enough to stem growing uncertainty among operators over how and when to get into the voice business. Several sources said that AT&T Corp. - a strong proponent of delivering telecommunications services over cable in the Internet-protocol format - was signaling that it might stay with circuit-switched packetized voice as a first-line option longer than originally anticipated.
AT&T would use the broadband-IP platform as a means of offering feature-enhanced second-line services. "There's a lot of confusion right now with all of the talk about IP telephony, and there's no certainty as to when it will be a viable first-line option,"...
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