January 15, 2006
The Mexican telecommunication carrier IUSACom Networks Inc. will offer VoIP services for business and residential customers in Latin America and the United States.
The new VoIP service will be marketed to customers in Mexico as well as the rapidly growing Hispanic market in the United States, which HispanTelligence expects to reach $1 trillion within the next four years.
IUSACom’s decision to offer VoIP to Mexican customers gives major credence to Telegraphy’s recent prediction of a 46 percent jump in international VoIP traffic from Latin America. (See Telegeography Projects 38 Percent Jump in International VoIP Traffic.)
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A recent blog entitled All aboard the bandwagon! greeted the news about Yahoo Messenger’s new voice features with a marked lack of enthusiasm. “Skype is getting some company,” began the post on Ars Technica. “I mean, some more company; Vonage has been around for a while. Come to think of it, MSN Messenger has had voice capabilities since v7.0. Oh, and there’s AOL TotalTalk, and Sony IVE, and GoogleTalk, and… Sorry, I see you’re yawning already.”
To many people, Voice over IP is an extension of the familiar, either as a cool instant-messaging feature or as a cheap way to make phone calls. But there’s a lot more to VoIP just beneath the surface–especially the potential for a host of amazing new services that weren’t possible five years ago. It’s like finding a harmless snake protruding from the rocks, only to discover that the snake is actually the tip of the tail of something massive buried in the hillside.
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Two Indonesians in their 50s exchanged wedding vows this week without ever meeting by using the Internet to make up for the oceans that separate them.
Wiriadi Sutrisno works as a physiotherapist in California, and Rita Sri Mutiara Dewi is from the Indonesian city of Bandung.
They met through the Internet. Sutrisno proposed that way, and they finally exchanged wedding vows in a ceremony using voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology. A Muslim religious official supervised their exchange of vows, the Jakarta Post reported Friday.
“We’ve exchanged photos, chat almost daily and often call each other, but we’ve never met,” Dewi was quoted as saying.
She was introduced to Sutrisno by a friend.
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