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Yahoo Readies New VoIP Service

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the do-you-yahoo-phone dept.

Rob writes "Yahoo is readying to capture a larger piece of the VoIP market and will announce a new VoIP product during the next two weeks. The new service would be comparable to Skype Technologies SA's, said Safa Rashtchy, senior research analyst at Wall Street researcher Piper Jaffray Co, which makes a market in Yahoo stock. The impending move by Sunnyvale, California-based Yahoo into the VoIP arena would potentially be disruptive."

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  1. Re:Free Plans by killercoder · · Score: 5, Informative

    There are several services that allow free inbound calls from pstn - but require you to pay for outbound.


    sipgate.co.uk - free inbound UK and German numbers
    stanaphone.com - free inbound NYC and Area
    messagenet.it - free inbound italy number

    I have one asterisk PBX here in Toronto with inbound phone numbers in all of the above - I don't pay for a single one of the inbound numbers (I pay for local service thru Vonage).

    This site has a lot of useful information on SIP providers and Asterisk http://www.voip-info.org

  2. Or Maybe Not by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yahoo Shoots Down VoIP Speculation
    By Jim Wagner

    Officials at Internet portal giant Yahoo (Quote, Chart) are denying a report that it will launch a VoIP (define) service in the next two weeks.
    In a research report issued this week, Safa Rashtchy, an analyst with Piper Jaffray, said the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company was likely to launch a service similar to the popular Skype application.

    The analyst noted that such a service would "expand Yahoo's content footprint and further establish Yahoo's brand as a comprehensive provider of content, search and communication services," and likely run as both an advertising-based basic service and paid premium service.

    That's not the case, Yahoo officials said.

    "The rumor from the financial analyst is not true," Terrell Karlsten, a Yahoo spokeswoman, told internetnews.com.

    Yahoo has been making a number of moves this year to advance its voice offerings. That's sparked speculation over the company's VoIP strategy.

    Slashdot: Bogus news for nerds... Stuff that really doesn't matter.

  3. Re:Crowded, Much? by Cocteaustin · · Score: 3, Informative

    Dear Slashdot, For the thousandth time: www.yahoo.com is NOT INTENDED FOR YOU. Please instead use search.yahoo.com. You will find it more soothing. Smooches, Your friends at Yahoo.