The government of India has permitted California-based Internet giant Yahoo! to offer VoIP services for the Indian users of its Instant Messenger.
Although, Yahoo! has a strong base in India for its enormous web-based services like mail, searching and portals through its Yahoo! India, the company has decided to form a special company, Yahoo Internet Communication India to bring VoIP services, a spokesperson of Yahoo! India explained.
India is now a potential market for VoIP. With large numbers of Indians are living abroad, their families and relatives are keen to keep touch with them through VoIP service as it offers them free or inexpensive international call facilities.
On the other hand, India has experienced mushrooming growth in the number of Internet users. As per the latest count, the total number of online users in India is 37 million and the number will go on increasing in the coming days.
What is interesting to note the fact that the number of active users (people who use Internet at least once in a month) has touched to 25 million in September from 21.1 million in March 2006.
Therefore, the major Internet service providers are now betting on India for VoIP revenue. Yahoo! is the frontrunner of them. Like Yahoo, anther broadband giant AOL has also decided to launch its VoIP services and Instant Messaging in India.
Via:[Infoworld]
Comments
hi,
Big players like Google, Yahoo are entering the VoIP market and going to compete with giants like BSNL, Bharti etc.,
In this scenario, is there any place for a medium sized firms to offer customized VoIP services to local broadband subscribers ?
Will it become like free e-mail market such that small business users, individuals can utilize the free phone PC-PC phone services offered by Yahoo, Skype etc.,
Also, I read an article that broadband(ISP) service providers are no more allowed to make use of their network for IP Telephony, if so how one could make IP Calls ?