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AOL Announces New VoIP Offering (That Probably Didn't Cost $4.1 Billion)
from the voip-hype dept
AOL has announced its consumer VoIP offering: which comes off sounding like a cross between Skype and Vonage. They've beefed up the VoIP capabilities of AIM, and inegrated the IM client with a broadband phone service that -- unlike SkypeOut -- doesn't force subscribers to make all their calls through a PC. While Skype makes PC-to-PC calls easy, SkypeOut doesn't easily integrate with the home phone people are used to using. AOL's figured all this out without dropping $4 billion, and has a much clearer plan than Skype to actually make money. If eBay wants to turn Skype into a phone company, it's unclear why they needed to drop so much cash. If they plan to just use it to add voice service to their auctions, it's, um, unclear why they needed to drop so much cash. Of course, at the same time, it's still not clear why AOL appears to be launching a product that competes with their sister company, Time Warner Cable, who already offers a popular VoIP offering. Why not have the two work together?
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So it wouldn't have made sense to tie the two together. Besides if AOL gets sold, they would need to sell the new service along with AOL.
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