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Communication
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Written by Michael Streeter
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First appeared London Evening Standard and The Guardian - 18/02/04
I have seen the future of telecommunications and today I called London on it.
From my home in France, and using just my computer, a microphone and
some free software, I was able to speak at length to a colleague
without being bothered about the expense. For apart from the price of
my local internet connection, the call cost me nothing.
It is, many believe, one of the biggest revolutions in voice
communications since Alexander Graham Bell phoned his assistant in the
next room in March 1876 and declared: ‘Mr Watson, come here, I want to
see you’.
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