{"id":547821,"date":"2006-01-25T06:33:10","date_gmt":"2006-01-25T06:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/547821-tesco-challenges-bt-with-voip.html"},"modified":"2006-01-25T06:33:10","modified_gmt":"2006-01-25T06:33:10","slug":"tesco-challenges-bt-with-voip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/547821-tesco-challenges-bt-with-voip.html","title":{"rendered":"Tesco challenges BT with VOIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">The Times Online says Tesco wants to challenge the dominance of British Telecom (BT) by encouraging people to switch from their traditional landlines for the Net service, which allows users to make free calls anywhere in the world to others online. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The product, which works using voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) that converts voice into data and sends it over the Internet, will be available off the shelf from Tesco stores from today. Consumers will need to have a PC running and a broadband Internet connection to use the service. They will also have to pay fees for calls to landlines and mobile phones. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><i><font size=\"2\">INet-Bridge<\/font><\/i><\/p>\n<p><em \/><br \/>\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s biggest retailer, Tesco, is to shake up Britain&#8217;s phone market by offering a Skype-like service to millions of customers that it claims is a much user friendlier way of making free calls to other Internet users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}