Software firms divided on unified VoIP standard

Andrew Sviridenko
10 Jan 2013
00:00

The WebRTC initiative, as noted in a recent Infoworld article, faces major challenges due to its incompatibility with browsers and operating systems of leading software companies Apple and Microsoft.

Apple and Microsoft do not intend to include the WebRTC voice and video transfer in their respective browsers, the Internet Explorer or Safari.

While Google, Mozilla and Opera do not renounce an idea of compatibility for WebRTC programming code, their browsers still only partially support it.

The internet is moving toward real-time communications, but development of a common standard for this movement is taking much longer. Software products for communications via the internet using Google voice engine are still limited by certain browsers such as Google Chrome and Firefox, and operating systems like Android.

This makes cross-platform communications impossible for subscribers who account for more than half of today’s worldwide browser market. These are subscribers with Apple who use the Safari browser and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.

The reason for this incompatibility is not just a technology issue. With the use of broadband mobile internet access increasing, software giants are eager to seize their market share from carriers and promote their own voice and video over IP (VVoIP) protocols.

Understanding their vulnerable position and taking into account the rising popularity of VoIP and other over-the-top (OTT) services, most carriers do not want to support Microsoft, Google, or Apple VoIP products.

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A telecommunications provider should enable subscribers to make calls irrespectively of operator and type of device at the recipient’s end -- phone, smartphone, tablet PC, notebook or other device -- which is only possible through unified standards.

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