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EarthLink offers new VoIP service | CNET News.com
By Larry Hendrick | January 30, 2006
The plot thickens…
EarthLink offers new VoIP service | CNET News.com
The company has partnered with broadband access wholesaler Covad Communications to offer the voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, service in Dallas, Seattle and the San Francisco-San Jose area starting this week. EarthLink is bundling the new service with DSL (digital subscriber line) broadband access. More cities in Covad’s territory will offer the service later this year; EarthLink would not specify which.
Unlike other VoIP services, including the one EarthLink currently sells for $20 a month, the new service doesn’t require consumers to add hardware. Customers can use their existing phones and plug them into phone jacks as they would with any regular telephone service.
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