Yahoo-AT&T VoIP offer: a win-win offer?
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AT&T, the big traditional landline telco, now features the Yahoo messenger to its own clients. It’s like: You know me for a long time, you like my phone service but you do want a cheaper service for your long-distance calls or even your communications to mobile phones.
So now, AT&T users could make phone calls from their PC that will end on a PC for free, or on a regular phone for at least $2.5 per month. A personal phone number is given to every users and voicemail is free. The prices are very affordable for VoIP users.
No doubt, Yahoo will gain new customers. But according to ZDnet editor Russell Shaw, there’s like, a bug in the Yahoo/AT&T offer: Yahoo charges $3 for the same AT&T service that costs $30.
But of course, good old friends never betray each other. Yahoo spokesmen are clear: the service is being touted as a “supplement” to traditional phone lines. So it’s a win-win situation… that gives Yahoo another advantage: it doesn’t have to provide any 911 emergency calling.
Anyway, the most interesting is that Yahoo hooked up with AT&T to feed rich media content both for its online users and for mobile phone users. Yahoo is heating up against the forthcoming Lycos VoIP softphone, which is also a video-on-demand and music platform.
Apr 28, 2006 | By Nuno
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