3 October 2005
New Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology is to make home telephone calls easier and cheaper and more popular, an industry player has said.
Dr. Raj Jain, co-founder and chief technology officer of American company Nayna Networks, a provider of next generation network solutions, said that VoIP was just another step in the process to a fully networked world.
According to Dr. Jain, "With cost lowering VoIP over broadband, small business and ordinary citizens are expecting to be in-touch and productive from the home, school, office, hotel, and even the local coffee shop.
"With VoIP over broadband you can talk to anyone in world at anytime for as long asyou want.
"VoIP and Internet video broadband technologies are changing social behaviour patterns in a manner similar to instant messaging.
"Long distance VoIP and internet video are very low cost and therefore opening the market to a new audience of small businesses and even children."
Ricky Nicol, co-founder of Edinburgh-based telecoms firm Commsworld, agrees, saying recently that VoIP will change the way we think about home telephone calls: "The humble phone is undergoing its biggest ever transformation."
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