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Article: Voice over Internet protocol driving a new evolution.
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- Rural Telecommunications
- Article date:
- July 1, 2005
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IN THE LATE 1800S when the transportation industry was evolving from horse and buggies to automobiles, many in the buggy business were not enthusiastic or optimistic about the new "horseless carriages." Most viewed motorized vehicles as a threat to their lucrative operations and predicted that the automobile would not catch on because only a few city roads were paved--the rest were dirt or gravel, making travel by car too slow and cumbersome.
Now, more than 100 years later, the telecommunications industry is evolving from the telephone to the Internet via voice over Internet protocol (VoIP)--the technology that carries voice over the Internet in digitized ...