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Interest in Voice over Internet Protocol technology has reached fever pitch amongst Australian businesses, an Optus survey claims, but competing research by Pacific Internet suggests otherwise.
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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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