June 07, 2005
Telephone Carrier Starts VoIPing
It appears as though the telephone companies are starting to catch on with their VoIP competitors. It has just been recently announced that Texas Livingston Telephone is going to start offering VoIP services to their customers and bypass third-party providers. They choose this route so they could continue to service those who wished to upgrade to VoIP connectivity. If they had gone with third party vendors, there customer base could have been compromised and decline in profit. Before they could make this transition however, LivTel has been upgrading their networks in order to support video feeds and until recently, voice. I guess if you can't beat em', join em'. According to PR NewsWire:
"We could have turned on VoIP over a year ago," says Walzel, "when we installed our IP Video network. But we were very reluctant to just hand our customer list over to a third-party VoIP provider. We've worked 100 years to build relationships with those customers.
Read more at: LivTel Offers Its Own VoIP
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