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March 12, 2004
Yahoo and BT: IM-to-POTS
Posted by Stowe Boyd
Looks like Yahoo is pushing into internet telephony integration with Yahoo Messenger. Yahoo and British Telecom are planning to offer voice messenger services in the UK via Yahoo Messenger, the companies announced this week. The product will be called Yahoo Messenger with BT Communicator [that's a mouthfull of contending brands]. Limited trials start in May and will roll out later this year. It will be an Internet telephony service, using VoIP.
Looks like Yahoo is waking up to the value prop of being able to connect to all those folks out there with telephones, from your desktop IM client. Now if only AOL and MSN similarly connect, and if telephone users will be able to connect to desktop IM users via VoIP, we will have sneaked into interoperability through voice telephony shenanigans.
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