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Why Are Surfers Screaming And Hollering About Skipe

I was reading a Time magazine article the other day.You would be amazed what these two bright sparks did to make themselves a small fortune, they sold it to ebay.So why am I getting so pumped up?.A lot of people call it voip.It is not a new idea, making long distance calls over the internet for free.

The implications are obvious, the first being that if you can attach a video phone to skipe, you can chat and see just about anyone anywhere in the world.It is essentail you get a rapid connection as quickly as you can.Great pictures are not guaranteed however if your connection is slow.

So I went on Ebay and guess what, they are flogging phones already due to skyp.I guess it's been around for about a year already but it's catching on fast..

Due to Skypes huge success big commercial telephone companies are trying to get a foothold in the marketplace.I guess the question remains is it commercially possible.Will the net spell the end for voice over ip

You can be fairly sure that many start ups will enter the market in the hope of making a killing but it has an established foothold. The govt will undoubtedly see the potential and want to add money to their coffers by using voip.Skype are charging to make phone calls to cell phones and local regular phones, and that's called skyping out,etc

The next big thing which voip are making a cheeky move towards is the idea of web conferencing. With 911 happenning relatively recently more people want to travel less and less so it is a great opportunity for voip to put video conferencing back on the map

We are also seeing a huge amount of people using audio and video on the web now that download speeds are that much faster.Many people think video and audio will be a passing fad but all the evidence points to the contrary.

But one thing is for certain, it's not just hype they're muttering about, and only time will tell if the general public will catch on when they get their free skype download.The question remains will voip take over from the phone.

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