AT&T and Yahoo! announced this morning that AT&T will offer its high-speed Internet customers and Yahoo! customers within AT&T’s 13-state local phone service region a co-branded version of Yahoo! Messenger with Voice, the online giant’s VoIP-enabled IM application. The IM service is now out of beta worldwide as of today.
The service is clearly going to be a money-maker for AT&T. Not only is the phone company Yahoo!’s preferred network termination provider for all phone calls that use the traditional voice network (resulting in network termination fees for AT&T), but it will also presumably get a stake of the premium revenues that flow from Yahoo! Messenger with Voice enhanced voice services.
These premium fees apply when customers call or receive calls from traditional or mobile phones with the IM service. The PC-to-phone service is called Phone Out and the phone-to-PC service is called Phone Out. Yahoo! offers the enhanced option with calls priced at $.02/minute or $2.99/month or $29.90/year.
Update: Yahoo! is really cooking with gas on the new apps front. Om has this item about Yahoo! quietly releasing for all its DVR option, formerly Meedio now Yahoo! Go TV.
Cynthia Brumfield at 6:57 AM|Comments(0)
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