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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedIP telephony: promising, but still problematic.
Broadcasting & Cable, November, 1998 by Colman, Price
The economics of the new technology are attractive but 'the big disadvantage is [IP] ain't done' The impending AT&T/TCI merger has created a buzz about Internet protocol telephony as the big score in competitive telephone services, but it's still not clear when that might pay off. With its core long-distance business steadily losing market share, AT&T desperately wants into the local telephone markets ruled by regional Bell companies since the mid'80s.
The acquisition of TCI would give AT&T access to an estimated 30 million cable homes passed in key local telephone markets. The economics of IP telephony are attractive. By using packet-switched technology, IP telephony can ride on the network with data and video signals. That means cable...
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