Begin forwarded message: From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: October 10, 2004 6:58:15 AM EDT To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <dewayne-net@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Re: AT&T, Vonage Cut Prices on Internet Calling Reply-To: dewayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx[Note: This comment comes from reader Steve Schear. A clear case of the 'industry experts' missing the boat. Steve cited the number of users who at anytime are online. The number of Skype subscribers is in the millions. In fact, its already over the 17.5 million that the Yankee Group forecasts for 2008. DLH]
From: Steve Schear <s.schear@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: October 9, 2004 11:45:25 PM PDT To: dewayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [Dewayne-Net] AT&T, Vonage Cut Prices on Internet Calling At 01:20 PM 9/30/2004, Dewayne Hendricks wrote:AT&T, Vonage Cut Prices on Internet Calling Thu Sep 30, 2004 01:51 PM ET By Justin Hydehttp://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml? type=technologyNews&storyID=6380857&src=rss/ technologyNews§ion=newsWhile industry experts estimate the current residential VOIP market has less than 1 million subscribers, they expect sharp growth starting in 2005 as large cable companies such as Comcast Corp. roll out their VOIP services. Communications consulting firm Yankee Group forecasts VOIP services will win 17.5 million residential users by 2008.Funny, the number of VoIP connected Skype users is over 800,000 regularly...steve
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