Jeff Pulver’s post reminded me that Vocaltec introduced their Iphone internet phone software in 1995!
I actually remember going to meet with them in their Herzliya, Israel office. At the time I was an importer of modems (fast ones! 1200 baud = 1.2kps) and the idea was to bundle the program with my modems and then resell the package to the local ISPs. Don’t remember why but it didn’t work out at the time.
Just another reminder how Vocaltec practically invented consumer VoIP, but was never really able to commercialize it…
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1 VOIP IP Telephony // Jan 15, 2007 at 3:46 pm
Who used iPhone before 1996? Vocaltech did it seems.
Flat Planet and a phone lead me to a Jeff Pulver’s article about iPhone. It seems that before Cisco’s iPhone was registered after the fact that Vocaltech’s and Jeff use of the name iPhone.
As the articles mention, both the authors have had connecti…
2 voipniche.com » Blog Archive » Who used iPhone before 1996? Vocaltech did it seems. // Jan 28, 2007 at 7:16 am
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