Yahoo to launch voice service
Budding online joint venture Yahoo7 is aiming at offering “Internet-based voice service” by next year, it is a part of a plan to overhaul bigger competitor ninemsn. Yahoo7 is already offering its users with instant messaging services – the ability to call other computer users.
“Most of the stuff that is needed to do it is here”, Yahoo7 chief executive Ian Smith told Media. “We require working out the timing and the approach we are going to take to market.
“It has to be carefully analyzed – after all, the fundamental raison d’etre of voice over IP is that there is very little money to be charged. It would probably be 2007 unless a few other things come down the pipe.”
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