Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Quotes

The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.

We need a data network that can easily carry voice, instead of what we have today, a voice network struggling to carry data.

Communications will become sight-sound and you will see as well as hear the person you telephone. The screen can be used not only to see the people you call but also for studying documents and photographs and reading passages from books.

What is special about VOIP is that it's just another thing you can do on the Internet, whereas it is the only thing - or nearly the only thing with the exception of the dial-up modem and fax - that you can do on the public switched telephone network.

Given a choice, people will demand the freedom to communicate wherever they are, unfettered by the infamous copper wire.

What we are doing is taking advantage of the broadband Internet to provide basically unlimited free calls to anyone at a higher voice quality than they can with the phone lines.

Our dream was that someday nobody would talk on a wired telephone. Everybody would talk on a wireless phone.

WhatsApp is both disrupting and demonetizing the entire wireless industry, and now the Facebook acquisition provides the infrastructure needed for WhatsApp to begin offering voice calls. So instead of people paying on average $80 per month, users only have to pay $0.99 per year for the same services. Wireless carriers, beware.

You can sell nothing for a mark-up for a while, but only until something starts eating away at it. Now I can go home and click on Yahoo, call my sister and talk over a microphone for free.

We have just started, and if you compare the number of people using Skype to the number using a telephone network around the world, we're still just starting.