VoIP finds foreign friends and adversaries
Another sign that although VoIP is maturing as a deployable technology, it still has a ways to go -- both in technical maturity and amid regulatory hurdles in both international and domestic markets.
Ben Charney writes in C|Net News:
Internet phone provider Vonage has all but tapped Singapore to start its expansion into Asia later this year.
The primary attraction? Singapore's utility regulators are "very friendly" to Net phone operators, Vonage Chief Financial Officer John Rego said during a recent interview. So too are public utility officials in Japan and Korea, which are also on Vonage's radar screen, Rego added.
As the New Jersey-based company's experience shows, U.S. Internet phone operators expanding beyond the hypercompetitive U.S. market are finding a world divided between nations that very much welcome foreign Net phone operators and those that don't.
posted by Fergie @ 5/16/2005 05:53:00 PM
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