June 14th, 2005
Yahoo Buys Dialpad Gets Serious About VoIP
From Om Malik’s Broadband Blog:
“Yahoo, like other IM providers might have been late to the VoIP party, but the company is quickly making up for lost time. Barely a month after launching its own VoIP enabled IM beta product, the company snapped up DialPad, a VoIP company that sells PC2PC and PC2Phone services to consumers. “What we saw in DialPad was quick way to add PC2Phone and inbound calls,” says Joanna Stevens, Yahoo’s VP of Corporate Communications. Yahoo will integrate Dialpad’s services with its new IM product.
“Andy explains quite well, when he writes: Dialpad provides Yahoo immediately with a proven platform that delivers least cost routing, the Dialpad engine that routes international traffic and enables termination plus gives them the billing, OSS and capability to make a Pre-Paid offering that terminates and possibly originates PSTN calling. Clearly this means Yahoo is going after the international audience and is looking to go right after Skype.
“Update#2: Yahoo confirmed the deal, declined to talk numbers and assured me that Yahoo’s broadband partners (read Bells) are well aware of its voice plans.
“Update#1: Craig Walker just called and confirmed the deal. Source: Om Malick
Lockergnome's Tech News Watch says:
Yahoo Buys Dialpad Gets Serious About VoIP
In a nutshell: Yahoo is taking on Skype. “Yahoo, like other IM providers might have been late to the VoIP party, but the company is quickly making up for lost time. Barely a month after launching its own VoIP enabled IM beta product, the company snapp…
June 14th, 2005 at 1:39 pm
Grey Hodge says:
I’ve used dialpad before, and I have to say, it is a good service. I especially liked the Java based app, because I didn’t have to install an application on whatever PC I was on, and it was easy to direct others to it also. It Just Worked, which is always good. Although VIOP apps have become easier to use in recent years, in 2000, Dialpad was amazingly easy to use. And the quality is good. Yahoo actually made a good purchase for once. I wonder if Google will buy Skype?
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