TeliaSonera Bredbandstelefoni

February 5th, 2004 TeliaSonera announces their residential broadband telephony service using server and client products from Hotsip AB {Now part of Oracle, Inc.}. In addition to telephony, the service includes: video calls, presence, and instant messaging.[Telia 2004]

The startup cost (2004) was 250 kr and the monthly cost 80 kr^†.
Calls to the fixed PSTN network are the same price as if you called from a fixed telephone in their traditional network.
Customers get a telephone number from the “area/city” code 075 (i.e.,
+46 75-15xxxxxxx)
They do not support calls to “betalsamtal” (0900-numbers)

Today: broadband telephony from any internet access network with ≥ 128kbps, with a +46 y xxxxxxx number; no longer a limitation to having the phone number in a specific area/city code, but the default value is based upon where you “live”.

^†Monthly cost in August 2009 was from 59 SEK/month, 2013 May price 80 SEK/month.

Slide Notes

[Telia 2004] Telia, “Telia lanserar bredbandstelefoni”, Pressrelease - 880445927, 5 Feb. 2004 14:02:01 +0100.

Transcript

[slide56] TeliaSonera introduced broadband telephony in 2004, and a startup company called Hotsip, bought by Oracle, was one of the first to do this, and the customers got a telephone number from the city code of 075. It looked like one big network. No matter where you were, you looked as if you were in an exchange, 075. They didn't support pay calls to 0900 numbers, and today, basically, once you get above 128 kilobits per second, there's no problem supporting voice over IP.