Net phone companies like Net2Phone are pinning their hopes on an unlikely player: Microsoft. Telecommunications executives and analysts say recent moves by the software giant into Internet telephony may be the last chance for the technology to reach the mainstream.
Microsoft messaging software will be given a direct interface with Telstra's Public Switched Telephone Network on a trial basis, for the next four months.
Australia's third-largest internet service provider iiNet today said it had signed up more than 30,000 local customers to its naked DSL service and more than 80,000 to its internet telephony offering.
Like the iPod, free phone service Skype is creating a coattail economy as hungry developers rush to cash in on its popularity.
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