The New York Times comes to a conclusion that I’ve had about Packet 8’s video phone service, that the videophone works well, but the lack of interoperability is an issue.
Here’s my view. If P8 would make a softvideo phone plug in that worked with Internet Explorer or Firefox that would let anyone face off on one or both directions they would get uptake and usage that they don’t currently have.
That said, I think another VoIP player will come along and follow up on the ground breaking activity that Packet 8 is doing and take the lead in Video Phone services.