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...about to explode in the face of the incumbent telephone companies," says David Isenberg, a former Bell Labs researcher and respected industry observer. Vonage, for example, has 70,000 customers paying $34.99 a month for unlimited calls in the U.S. and Canada. You just link your phone to your broadband connection via an adapter. An added perk: you can choose any area code in the country. Buy a second line for $4.99 a month, for instance, and select the area code of the college your daughter attends so that all her calls home will be local. Companies like Packet8, VoicePulse...
...INDICATORS red cadillac Detroit 's Big Three automakers - General Motors, Ford and DaimlerChrysler - reached trade agreements with China that will allow the export of thousands of vehicles over the next two years to the world's fastest-growing car market Strike Up The Broadband T-Online, Europe 's largest Internet service provider, posted a quarterly net profit of -3 million - the first since it floated in April 2000 - thanks to a rapid increase in the number of its broadband subscribers. Candid Camera Phones South Korea 's government called on cell-phone manufacturers to fit picture phones with an audible beep...
...phrase—it ain’t broke, so let’s not fix it. Not even with broadband...
Media giants and telecom companies are still trying to figure out how to exploit the new markets offered by the shift to broadband and video-on-demand. TiVo and systems like it, being rolled out by cable and satellite-TV providers, allow viewers to download TV shows and movies and watch them when they want, skipping ads if they choose. U.S. networks haven't figured out viable revenue models for that. The BBC has no such roadblock, since its shows are financed by the citizenry and broadcast in Britain commercial-free. That means it can get on with digitizing...
Implementing the service should be a snap. Server space just gets cheaper. And the number of broadband homes in the U.S. and Europe will quadruple to 122 million by 2007, according to media-research firm Screen Digest. As for how to cash in, the BBC charter says nothing about having to give away the goods overseas. So while Web viewers in Britain will be able to watch gratis, BBC viewers abroad may have to pay up--assuming the BBC can foil large-scale file swapping. "The government's sure to force them to do this," says Peter White of Rethink...