Recently I decided to have a look at a really awesome write-up in Entrepreneur Magazine and discovered that there is a thing called a skype phone spreading over the internet .You would be amazed what these two bright sparks did to make themselves a small fortune, they sold it to ebay.What am I talking about.Many know it as skype.It is not a new idea, making long distance calls over the internet for free.
Basically then you will be able to chat to whoever you like whenever you like wherever they are in the world and can even see them if you have skipe and a web cam.It is essentail you get a rapid connection as quickly as you can.Fantastic pictures are not guaranteed however if your connection is slow.
Ebay the massive auction site is also auctioning skyp phones.We think skype has been in existence for a year to date and it is proving immensely popular.
The bigger commercial telecom firms are beginning to sell voice over internet protocol packages.All the telecom gurus are watching voip closely thinking that maybe it will crash and burn.Is it here to stay or will it have vanished off the face of the net within 12 months.
You can be fairly sure that a lot of start ups will flood the market in the hope of making a killing but it has an established foothold.Then inevitably the feds will come in and regulate it.Skype has to make a dollar or two as well and they do this by billing consumers who phone home to their landlines from their computer.
It looks like voice over interet protocol is also at the forefront of web video conferencing as well. Web video conferencing was a huge idea about 10 years ago but then fell off the radar but now it is making a comeback.
My thoughts are that audio and video over the internet, especially over a broadband connection will gain in popularity.Everything says that audio and video will be the next biggest thing since sliced bread.
Over the next 5 years we will see whether the free skype download takes off in the way many gurus predict.We'll see in the next few years.