en it comes to mobile communications. Trends in their PSTN network are similar to indicators here in the United States, where businesses are moving to digital formats for voice over the old analog methods. This saves money and enables far superior quality. Competition in Western Europe has also grown due to the deregulation of many of their industrial sectors and the continued creation of a better EU. (Cit-Online)
             Russia is the final country I will take a look at. Russia has been struggling for years to have economic growth to prove that capitalization will work over socialism. Recently due to some of that growth, some industries in Russia have required more modern telecommunication system. The PSTN has always been controlled by the state, but since of lack of capital to upgrade, some of the system has been privatized. As with many other nations, businesses are moving from analog to digital system of ISDN. Only time will tell if the private citizens begin to expand upon the digital systems of tomorrow. (Sokolov)
             Technical Discussion of VoIP and IP Telephony
             IP Telephone is the generalized term for the use of packet switching of people's voice compared to the old method of the PSTN networks. IP Telephony is no new technology. It has been around for a few years, but due to the complicated nature of quality of service, it has finally begun to show some life. Advancements in compression and bandwidth speeds have given a new breathe to this technology. (Whatis.com)
             Voice over IP is the organized and standardized version of IP Telephony that has been gaining a lot of strength in recent years. Backing by companies such as Cisco, VocalTec, 3Com, and Netspeak has given the investment potential of a probable use of this new exciting technology. VoIP basically is the delivery of voice over the IP Protocol using packets of data. This enables the advantage of no toll charges that you would incur with the old telephone ...