BT launches new Internet telephony service.INTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-(C)1995-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD LTD 1 Laron-type dwarfism 2 Leukotriene D 3 Long-term depression, see there 4. Long-term disability UK telecomms company BT has launched PC 2 UK, a mass market Internet telephony Another term for IP telephony and VoIP. In the late 1990s, some people made a distinction between Internet Telephony and VoIP: Internet telephony referred to voice over the public Internet, while VoIP referred to voice over private IP networks. service. The new service - utilising both VoIP and Session Initiation Protocol (protocol) Session Initiation Protocol - (SIP) A very simple text-based application-layer control protocol. It creates, modifies, and terminates sessions with one or more participants. Such sessions include Internet telephony and multimedia conferences. It is described in RFC 2543. technology - will be based on the '.NET' web services platform from Microsoft. UK consumers can sign up to the service and receive the ability to make an unlimited number of local and national voice calls from their PC over the Internet for one fixed monthly payment. Subscribers to PC 2 UK will be required to be a BT Together customer, and have a PC with an Internet connection, Microsoft MSN Messenger version 4.5, a Microsoft Passport, a microphone and speakers. No pricing information was announced. ((Comments on this story may be sent to info@m2.com)) |
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