Over on slashdot: “Tesco, the UK’s largest supermarket chain, has announced plans to sell a VOIP handset and connection through their stores. Given that one out of every eight pounds, spent on shopping in the UK goes to Tesco, and the UK has one of the highest broadband takeup rates around, is this the end for the classic telecoms providers like BT?”
Death comes slowly to big companies. (Hey, Unisys is still around!) So I don’t know that the doomsaying for the telecoms is right. But there’s sure a world of hurt — and a world of opportunity — ahead in VoIP. That’s why we’re holding the Emerging Telephony Conference next week. And why our recent book on Asterisk is blowing off the shelves… (We’ve sold nearly 10,000 copies since its release in September.)