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Jon 'Maddog' Hall, the president of open-source organisation Linux International, told the LinuxWorld Expo in London on Wednesday that open-source voice-over-IP (VoIP) will be bigger than Linux.
Australian organisations are warming up to IP telephony, according to a recent survey conducted by the global market advisory firm IDC Australia. The survey showed over half of medium to large companies will implement the technology by 2007.
Telstra plans to respond in a "measured way" to the competitive threat posed by voice over Internet protocol services, with the maximum net revenue effect on the carrier over the next 18 to 24 months "unlikely to be material" to its traditional voice revenues, senior Telstra executive Ted Pretty said today.
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Optus released a new VoIP package yesterday, designed to appeal to the small to medium business market in Australia.
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