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26Percentage of wireless customers who use their cell phones to take picturesMore Vitals
| |   Finally, 21st Century Phone Service Internet telephony promises far more sophisticated features and much lower prices. It also promises to upset the telecom power structure New Rules for the New Telecom FCC Commissioner Kevin Martin answers some tough regulatory questions raised by the "constantly morphing" VoIP services For Whom the VoIP Bell Tolls Failure to quickly respond to Internet telephony's rising popularity -- at home and at work -- could cost incumbent telcos plenty Net2Phone's Call to Investors The VoIP pioneer leads the pack in this emerging technology. The question now is: Can its stock maintain its winning ways? Skype: Net Telephony as File-Trading The peer-to-peer phone company, started by KaZaA's Scandinavian founders, aims to do to telecom what KaZaA did to the music biz Phone Service the "Zero Cost" Way Skype co-founder Niklas Zennstrom explains why he believes "at some point the Internet will carry the majority of communication" | |
 NEWS ANALYSIS Net Phones Start Ringing Up Customers Big rollouts by cable operators have the Baby Bells scrambling to fight back (12/29/03) NEWS ANALYSIS Telecom's Altered Landscape Consumers rejoice. Time Warner's deal with Sprint and MCI looks like the Big One that finally cracks the phone world wide open (12/11/03) NOTHING BUT NET Why the Bells Should Be Very Scared Free voice calls transmitted over the Internet are fast becoming mainstream. To survive, today's phone companies must adjust, radically (11/11/03) COMMENTARY Time to Rewrite the Rules of Telecom Now that voice calls can be sent over the Net, existing phone regulations are becoming irrelevant. The FCC has to make some tough choices (9/8/03) SPECIAL REPORT Redialing Internet Telephony Using the Net to make voice calls is getting a second chance, as an improved technology with special appeal to networked businesses (5/1/02) | |
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