A company in Australia wants to deliver voice service over Wi-Fi, something that could have Telstra shaking in their boots.
What makes this interesting is how much of Sydney will be wireless, so its the mobile carriers and Telstra both who have to start realizing that as new wireless technologies roll out, that their revenues are being threatened.
While the uptake by users won’t cause a switch the way landlines are being disconnected, the ability to use free services like Skype, plus as needed termination means for some there is a reason to add the service.
Kids in school who only need to talk to their friends, not call businesses or outside organizations will be big users of the service, once they can afford the devices. But, as handheld game devices and PDAs become endpoints for SIP and all flavors of VoIP, expect more of the Skype like services (i.e. Peerio, Firefly, yPhone) to grow in usage and number of subscribers.