Source: voipcentral.org

After shutting down its much-hyped TotalTalk service, AOL is now eyeing on the global Voice market with adding new features to its Instant Messaging Application (AIM), although the US online service provider has registered very negligible number of non-American customers towards its messaging service.

However, with the close down of TotalTalk ATA VoIP solution, AOL has now a plenty of resources to expand its VoIM solution (Voice over Instant Messaging) that comes with AIM Phoneline.

AOL is intended to bring three application programming interfaces (APIs) to enable developers to build systems like personalize the AIM Phoneline service by adding ringback tones and ring tones for frequent callers and provide call management functionality into the AIM Phoneline service.

AIM Phoneline provides a telephone number to subscribers free of charge. The company also releases a pay-version of its AIM service, which provides users unlimited calls to US and 30 countries worldwide for $14.95 per month.

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Source: voipcentral.org

AOLs (America Online) VoIP run comes to a surprising end with its decision to close down the much-talked TotalTalk service just one year after its launch in North America.

A company spokesperson explained that the service will be terminated in October due to a pretty challenging and competitive market. It might be a major factor for the US-based broadband service providers to drop the service.

In fact, in these days the VoIP market is witnessing throat-cut competition due the entry of new players and fresh offers from the established players.

Therefore, AOL, Yahoo!, MSN and Google feel it secure to go for IM route than to stand before the VoIP service providers like Vonage, SunRocket, 8×8 and Verizon.

However, an Aswath post said that their page might have been hijacked since other pages like sign-up page seem to be working normally.

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