In article <1125622616.815145.64040@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups. com>,
ledlight@gmail.com says...
> Well mebbe wires going way of telegrams and telegraph.
>
Not for a long time.

> Got WiFi, GSM, satellite and coming soon, for next few years, WiMax.
> None of them a one size fits all solution in themselves but combined
> get rid of some of reasons for having wires or fibres.

wi-fi have got problems with distance, GSM is too expensive and also got
blackspots. Satellite hyas too much of a delay and most of the time it
is only one way, so you still need a phone line to transmitt the data.

>
> Interesting that Skype has taken off as seems least elegant VOIP
> solution plus really tired of seeing Ezula and Bargain Buddy, Skype
> shows its heritage from Sharmann Networks developers of Kazaa.
>
skype is easy to use and do not require any other hardware, I did not
see Barain buddy or Ezula with Skype.


Hadn`t heard of SIP protocol at all before started looking around at
> Skype phones and discovered SIP phones that don`t need a PC running all
> the time.
>
> But Skype, Babble and now Google are getting the coverage,VOIP phones
> are still off the publics radar.


Only minority of the public will bother with VOIP.