How broadband stimulus could bolster the VoIP market: 8x8

With a nudge from federal officials as to Internet telephony’s usefulness as an application, the proliferation of broadband Internet – an effort now underway in earnest, with stimulus funds behind it – could help boost the VoIP market, officials with the Santa Clara, Calif.-based provider of Packet8 business, mobile and residential broadband communications services told TMCnet in an interview.

Huw Rees (News - Alert), the vice president of business development at 8x8 Inc., also told TMCnet that while his company applauds efforts to bring broadband Internet to the nation’s more remote areas, it’s still critical that the government focus on teaching people about applications they may want to use...