OECD: Internet Telephony to Revolutionize Telecommunications

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on August 25, 2005 - 6:46am.

Paris -- A new report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a group of the world's leading industrialized countries, has identified Internet telephony (VoIP) as the next technological innovation to shake up the global telecommunications industry. "The growing popularity of Internet telephony threatens the fixed-line revenues of traditional carriers, especially for international calls," the OECD said. "VoIP presents a challenge to mobile telephones, which in many countries are now more numerous than fixed connections." The OECD report also said that the growing popularity of downloading video from the Internet would significantly reduce the time people spend watching free-to-air TV, driving down audience share and advertising revenue for broadcasts and making it harder for public-service broadcasters to meet their social policy objectives.
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