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Summary: Gizmo Project is a competitive product that offers several services Skype does not. If it can keep up the momentum, this service could be a contender. |
Launched in September 2005, and still in the initial phases of development, PeerMe is oriented in a completely different direction than the traditional VoIP usage model embraced by Skype and Gizmo Project.
PeerMe Founder and CEO Tom Lasater says that the competition's focus on Internet telephony as a "cheaper, better phone call" is misguided and misses the bigger picture of the communities that VoIP can graft onto and enable. This emphasis on community forms the foundation of PeerMe's roadmap. "Our view is that this is not a phone call," Lasater states. "We're allowing anyone in the world to talk to anyone else in the world, but you can't tie a phone to a database or a Web site."
Subsea cable alternatives can provide a level of comfort for those concerned about disruptions. Realistically, they will continue to play a small, but critical role in the short term.
Maintaining existing network infrastructures often incurs huge technical debt before newer technologies are adopted over time.
Amid ongoing regional uncertainties, telecom infrastructure in the Middle East has expand to include terrestrial low-latency network infrastructure, which offers resilience and agility in navigating political complexities without relying solely on undersea networks.
