IP telephony: Does AT&T have its number?(Internet protocol)

Broadcasting & Cable, July, 1998 by Higgins, John M.

Telco is putting its local phone ambitions in the hands of a new, untested technology Price Colman and Richard Tedesco contributed to this story By deciding to rely on Tele-Communications Inc.'s cable systems as its route into consumers homes, long-distance giant AT&T Corp. is betting on a promising but unproven technology-IP telephony- to traffic telephone calls the way America Online traffics Web pages.

In many ways, IP-for Internet protocol-telephone services seem like an ideal solution for cable operators seeking to extract completely new revenue out of the millions of miles of copper they have strung across America. The same cable networks that are prepped for high-speed Internet service are expected to be readily adapt to carrying telephone calls...

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