Vidtel, the "world's first" video telephony company, was spotted last week at the Plug and Play expo.
Frequent blogger Luca Filigheddu saw a demo of the service running on a Grandstream video phone. Costs for the service will be "in the range of $30-50" per month and should include a video phone, plus unlimited video calls and some amount of stock vanilla voice calls. Currently, the service is in a closed beta and supposedly will be available in December through selected retail channels.
Skeptics might note that Vonage wanted to take a run at the video phone market in 2005 with mixed results, and Packet8 has had a foot in the videophone service for quite some time. Plus there are freebie services, such as Skype and Mac-whatever, that have been around for a while.
For more:
- Luca's blog [1] on sighting Vidtel
Related article
Wharton Views a Vidtel - FierceOnlineVideo [2]
Links:
[1] http://www.lucafiligheddu.com/2008/09/vidtel-the-worlds-first-video-telephone-company.html
[2] http://www.fierceonlinevideo.com/story/wharton-views-vidtel/2008-04-29