Daily News 2005/02/22

SOYO Group participating in the construction of global VoIP network of China Unicom

　　SOYO (R) Group, Inc., the leading provider of main board, peripheral equipment and electronic products, announced recently that it has signed a contract with China Unicom USA Corp., a subsidiary of China Unicom (NYSE: CHU) to enable Z-Connect users to make local, long-distance or oversea calls through the PSTN (public switched telephone network) and VoIP network.

Skype cooperating with Motorola for the promotion of VoIP market

　　This Monday may be one of the milestones in the development of VoIP, as Motorola announced to cooperate with Skype for the promotion of VoIP market. At present Skype has 25 million registered subscribers around the globe.

　　Skype is a kind of simple-style P2P telecom software provided by Skype for free. It helps establish connection between the users through the brand new P2P technique. What you need to do is just to install the software and log in (it won't be longer than a few minutes), then you can make a free phone call at any corner of the world with a PC headphone. Skype-based telecommunication is characterized by high voice quality, high reliability and the ability to penetrate the firewall. At present, it has been downloaded for about 60 million times.


Sales income from traditional telephone service on the European market will decline to 95 billion USD in 2008

　　According to the latest research report made by IDC, in the coming a few years, the European market of tradition telephone services will shrink due to the quick growth of mobile telecom and VoIP services. IDC anticipates that the sales income from traditional fixed telephone services on the European market will decline from the 108 billion USD in 2003 to 95 billion USD in 2008, with an annual declining rate of 3%.