New Trends in Telecommunications 1 - Voice over Internet Protocol
am 05.12.2005 von http://mehrsprachigkeit.blogspot.com
One of the most important innovations which is likely to cause a revolution in the area of electronic communications is Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). To explain it in a simple way it is making phone-calls over internet. I am sure that most of you know exactly what it means – making voice conversations over the messenger or using the slightly more elaborated version of this, Skype, are features which are used by many internet users.
However, it is doubtful that Skype can be seen as a real competitor to the normal telephone. Obviously those people who are good with adapting to the newest innovations in the area of electronic communications will use it. However, this is a very small minority. The majority of people are not capable of understanding how these technologies work and what benefits they can bring to them (they are simply afraid of innovation). But there is another dimension to this problem: even those people who use for example Skype are very unlikely to bother switching on their computer to use it for making all phone calls, especially short ones; it is just so much easier to simply pick up the telephone and make a phone call. This is even more so for people who do not use Skype – they are not prepared to change their habits in this area, which have developed over many decades. This is just highlighted by the example that Skype is used very little by major international firms, even though this …
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