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Daily News 2004/10/10
Mobile phone operator-----major competitor of IP phone
Jupiter recently released a report on the development trend of IP telephone.
According to the report, titled "wideband phone, the competitive
voice service enhancing the development of IP telephone", there will
be as many as 400,000 families in America using IP phone by the end of
the year and by 2009, the figure will be 12.10 million, accounting to
10% of the total number of American families. More over, by 2009, about
17% of the domestic wideband users in America will use IP phone, while
by the end of 2004, the percentage rate is only 1%.
In spite of the fast development of IP phone service, Jupiter pointed
out that the IP phone service provider will still face two major challengers:
the traditional telephone service operator has a big and faithful group
of users, and the mobile phone service operator has a new group of users,
who are much younger. These two will bring a great challenge to the development
of IP phone service.
Radfort presenting at Zhejiang Software & Telecom
Exhibition
On October 8, The "2004 Zhejiang Software & Telecom Exhibition"
will be held at Zhejiang World Trade Center. Radfort, the leading videoconference
system provider in Greater China Region will exhibit the video terminal
of the latest version (SM880 and SM300) on the exhibition.
Another purpose of Radfort to participate in the exhibition is to invite
channel operators. In the coming 3 years, it will fulfill the strategic
objective in three steps, that is from the professional equipment sales
market to the operation services market, and then to the market of video
terminal equipment for domestic use.
Traditional telecom companies suppressing VoIP services
According to the equipment provider, the traditional telecom
companies are trying to suppress the innovations in the new generation
of IP phone services.
White, CEO of net.com, a broadband telecom equipment provider said on
last Thursday (October 7) that the traditional telecom companies, which
are mainstream of the market, are trying to persuade the supervising organizations
and the government to prevent IP service provider from hurting the profitable
voice services as provided by them. White said at the NetEvents meeting
that all the traditional telecom companies are worrying about the transition
of the market to VoIP services. There is no way out for them except for
the government policies.
Ofcom, a Britain telecom supervising organization, is considering how
to supervise and control the VoIP service in Britain. The Association
of Internet Providers and other organizations have suggested Ofcom publicly
not to suppress the development of VoIP too much. It will surely affect
the development of VoIP services to use the same standards with that for
the traditional ones.
The foreign exchange transaction system as built up by
AltiGen being accepted by Shanghai Pudong Development Bank
Recently, Altigen Communications signed a contract with Shanghai Pudong
Development Bank to build up a foreign exchange transaction system for
the bank on the basis of its mature and advanced telephone and computer
techniques. After many times of technical test, the system is proved to
not only meet all the technical requirements, but also exceed the expectations
of Pudong Development Bank. The system has been accepted and put into
operation on October 9 of 2004.
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