Lycos Tosses Hat into FREE VoIP Ring

March 27th, 2006 | by amarfresh |

Following recent announcements from Google and Yahoo, is Lycos’s VoIP, IM, video chat, and multi-media offering.

In addition to the voice services, the softphone is built with video calling and instant messaging capabilities. It also has an on-demand and streaming video player and an MP3 player. Content will include movie trailers and other on-demand video, including IP broadcasting from a number of global broadcast channels, including Bloomberg, Reuters and BYU Television.

Lycos hopes to gain market share by offering free trials, member affinity programs and streaming multi-media content. With the help of lead-generation money they plan on sharing the revenue with to the user to defray costs such as long-distance dialing. Sound s to me like a myPoints-style incentive program tied back to a VoIP/digital entertainment service.

Lycos hard phone/communicator to follow?

Read: ClickZ

  1. One Response to “Lycos Tosses Hat into FREE VoIP Ring”

  2. By john on Apr 28, 2006 | Reply

    The free trial sound intresting but with so many players coming into voip it goona be hard to keep a customer base.

    http://aaknowledge.com/voip/index.php

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