I was reading a Time magazine excerpt yesterday and found that there is a thing called skype phones that was sweeping the internet.You would be amazed what these two intelligent sparks did to make themselves a small fortune, they sold it to ebay.What am I talking about.A lot of people call it voip.It is not a new idea, making long distance calls over the internet for free.

The implications are straightforward, the first being that if you can connect a video phone to skipe, you can chat and see just about anyone anywhere in the world.It is essentail you get a rapid connection as quickly as you can.Fantastic pictures are not guaranteed however if your connection is slow.

Ebay the massive auction site is also auctioning skyp phones.Skype is going to be massive from the amount of downloads we have seen since 2004.

Due to Skypes massive success big commercial telephone companies are trying to get a foothold in the marketplace.I guess the question remains is it commercially possible.Will it take on the net by storm, or is it just a passing fad

If past experience is anything to go by then we can expect the big players to look at voip in minute detail. The government will undoubtedly see the plusses and want to add money to their coffers by using voip.Skype has to make a dollar or two as well and they do this by billing consumers who phone home to their landlines from their computer

It seems like voice over interet protocol is also at the forefront of web video conferencing as well. With 911 happenning in the not too distant past more people want to travel less and less so it is a great opportunity for voip to put video conferencing back on the map

Audio and video are becoming more accessible for everyone nowadays-in this day and age especially with the massive success of youtube.Everything says that audio and video will be the next biggest thing since sliced bread.

Over the next few years we will see whether the free skype download takes off in the way many gurus predict.We will know fairly soon how it performs .

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