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| | CIOL : News : VOIP a major threat to fixed lines |
 | | Fixed-line telephony, already challenged by mobile phones, will come under more pressure from cheap or free calls made over the Internet and this may force telecoms firms to change business models, industry experts say. |
 | | Skype, too, will charge for calls from the computer to a public telephone number, fixed or mobile, when it introduces that option in the first half of this year, Zennstrom said. |
 | | Telecoms operators say the impact from Internet telephony was still limited by the hardware people need to install and its price, but that it could become big in the future. |
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