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"What costs might be involved if a customer is ready to use IP telephony?"
In order to promote the IP telephony business, World Link certainly had to fully assess everything internally.
"Without considering optical fiber lines, the only hardware cost would be the phone terminals."
Danny pointed to the two desk phones on the table, whose R&D was mainly handled by MCI.
"Of course, that's just the most basic IP phone functionality; if you want to connect them with the Teams on the computer.
As well as support subsequent email functions, there might be a need for a gateway device.
However, considering that most companies have their own servers and gateway devices, this part of the hardware cost could also be excluded."
Dean fiddled with the desk phone with an LCD display, "How much do they cost?"
"Around 100 US Dollars, roughly three times the cost of a traditional phone." Danny was the main person in charge of the World Link R&D team, and he knew these figures very well.
