Comments on: iiNet Realeases iiNetPhone http://www.gadgetlounge.net/voip/iinet-realeases-iinetphone/ Digital Technology for Digital Living. Mon, 17 Jan 2011 10:18:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Andy Todd http://www.gadgetlounge.net/voip/iinet-realeases-iinetphone/comment-page-1/#comment-727 Andy Todd Mon, 29 Aug 2005 08:05:41 +0000 http://www.gadgetlounge.net/?p=479#comment-727 It's interesting to note that OzEmail was actually offering VoIP services all the way back in 1997. In fact they launched the first commercial VoIP service in the world - OzEmail Interline - which was developed in Australia. Sadly like so many great technology innovations it got shut down. When OzEmail was bought by (then) MCI Worldcom they shut down this internet telephony start up because they thought it would impinge on their traditional long distance market. And they were right, it just took a little longer than Sean Howard originally thought. ;-) It’s interesting to note that OzEmail was actually offering VoIP services all the way back in 1997. In fact they launched the first commercial VoIP service in the world – OzEmail Interline – which was developed in Australia.

Sadly like so many great technology innovations it got shut down. When OzEmail was bought by (then) MCI Worldcom they shut down this internet telephony start up because they thought it would impinge on their traditional long distance market. And they were right, it just took a little longer than Sean Howard originally thought. ;-)

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