Comcast is introducing a new VoIP service that will use Internet technology and poses strong challenge to the regional telephone companies.

"Digital Voice" will let users perform tricks that they cannot do with conventional phones, such as get their voice messages from home sent to their e-mail at work. By using Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, voice calls get chopped up into data just like e-mail or Web pages and reassembled on the other end of a call.

Comcast will charge $40 a month for Digital Voice if the customer also buys cable and high-speed Internet and even more for Digital Voice alone. Upstart VoIP providers like Vonage charge as little as $15 a month, and even phone giants such as Qwest and AT&T charge only $30 a month.

Source: Fobes
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