AT&T, Qwest, Cox Communications & Time Warner Telecom have each made major press releases, announcing major rollouts of VoIP service! "Over the next five years, 12 million U.S. households will be candidates for VoIP, about 10 percent of households will use it, by 2009, generating $6 billion of revenue. At that point, VoIP will represent the single biggest broadband revenue stream, at $6.36 billion, eclipsing video at $5.7 billion and music downloads at $2.1 billion, or online games at $2.9 billion." Microsoft Corporation, Product Manager, Balz Wyss"VOIP will virtually wipe out local telephone carriers" Forbes, April 2004
