Daily News 2004/03/03

The sale of Internet telephone equipment increased by 31% last fourth quarter

　　According to Infonetics -- the information company, because the demand for VoIP equipment increases sharply, the sale of global Internet telephone equipment increased 31% during last three months in 2003. By 2007, they may increase by 3 times to sell.

　　The analyst of Infonetics - the information company, expressed this Monday, because AT&T, Britain telecommunications, French Telecom, SBC communication, Verizon communication and other telecommunication service providers begin and sell Internet phone and service, the demand for VoIP equipment will increase next year. Enterprise, telephones service providers and family telephone user are adopting VoIP technology, low-priced equipment and service by different speed to replace the circuit exchange technology that has existed several dozen years. The analyst said, VoIP has already been listed in their plan, and is bringing new growth.

　　Infonetics claimed, shortly, the incomes of industry would be influenced because enterprise, government organs and telephone service provider choose the new and old telephone technologies mixed.

　　VoIP rising stars, such as Cisco, Shoreline communication, Veraz network, etc. have totally sold the "pure" telephone system of Internet. The traditional long-distance telephone equipment providers, such as NT, Avaya and Siemens, through putting out an mix system that incorporates traditional telephone and IP to reduce threats from VoIP systematically.
Infonetics found, within all IP telephone sold in 2003, 68% of the lines mixed and used the traditional telephone and IP telephone technology, but pure IP sold has increased by 29% compared with 2002.

VoIP hands by hand with fixed point wireless first time

　　Recently, the service provider of VoIP, Vonage company offer its web phone service to the users of fixed point wireless broadband service supplier Telcorp. This will be initial cooperation of VoIP service provider and fixed point wireless service supplier.

　　Though both sides express, their service will face and handle official business of small-scale commercial user that they have the users of long-rang mainly, but Wirelesses Telcorpses will offer two kinds of web services that face to small-scale commercial users and three kinds of web services that face family users of Vonage. Each service is low expense.

Sichuan Mobile experiment network of Color Ring Back Tone service is opened and favored by the masses of users

　　Sichuan Mobile experiment network of Color Ring Back Tone service opened all-sided formally recently. At the beginning, the Color Ring Back Tone service was favored by the masses of users. Till February 9, there are more than 40,000 Color Ring Back Tone service users on the network platform of the experiment.