Carriers offering VoIP

Carriers offering VoIP

“Equant, a network services provider, will announce tomorrow that it is introducing voice-over-frame relay service in 40 countries, ... The company says customers can save 20% to 40% or more by sending voice traffic over its frame relay network. "This is the nearest you’re going to get to free voice," says Laurence Huntley, executive VP of marketing for Equant Network Service. … Equant isn’t alone in its pursuit to send voice traffic over data networks. Most of the major carriers are testing services that would send voice over data networks. ... .” [Thyfault 1998]

October 2002:

  • Verizon offering managed IP telephony via IPT Watch for US$3-4/month
  • WorldCom offering SIP based VoIP for DSL customers for US$50-60/month for unlimited local, domestic long distance, and data support {price does not include equipment at US$200-300 per phone and DSL/Frame relay/ATM connection} The Service Level Agreement (SLA) specifies >99.9% network availability, <55ms round-trip latency, and

>99.5% packet delivery.

December 2004:

  • Verizon offering VoiceWing - with unlimited calling within the US for US$34.95/month
  • “As we see the industry fundamentals continue to shift, the future will be about the convergence of computing and telecommunications. And where these two worlds meet is where MCI will be.” -- Michael D. Capellas, MCI CEO †

August 2009: Verizon, TeliaSonera (529 SEK/month for 8 simultaneous calls), ... offering SIP trunks

† Formerly available from: http://global.mci.com/about/publicpolicy/voip/

Slide Notes

Mary E. Thyfault, Equant To Roll Out Voice-Over-Frame Relay Service,  InformationWeek Daily, 10/21/98

Transcript

[slide53] So carriers started offering voice-over IP and media services. They started specifying, hey, here's the quality of service, the service-level agreement that you could get. So in this case, WorldCom saying greater than 99.9% network availability, less than 55 milliseconds round-trip latency, and 99.5% packet reliability, which is not bad. So that turns out that you can produce really good quality.