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VOIP companies and technologies usually face off against traditional telecommunications companies. So it may surprise
some to see Yahoo getting cozy with AT&T. Old models versus the new.
And yet the whole arrangement
appears very yin-yang in the way these two plan to complement each other. Yahoo provides the internet market
penetration with Yahoo communities and users, and more importantly, Yahoo Messenger. AT&T provides the ability to
tap into the physical phone lines.
The plan: Yahoo's AT&T branded Messenger will now allow you to not
just call computer to computer, but with AT&T's help, call out to a regular phone. And vice versa.
Will
this be a competitor to Skype? Too early to tell, but the game is afoot, and when players like AT&T line up on the
start line, certainly interesting.
ATT and Yahoo 'buddy' up over VOIP and IM
Posted May 4th 2006 3:27PM by Tobias Buckell
Filed under: Press Releases, Products and Services, Industry, Competitive Strategy, Yahoo! (YHOO)
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