Voice is dead in six years: Survey

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. – A new global survey of communications executives says that within the next half-dozen years, voice calls will cease to be the primary revenue source for their companies. The survey, commissioned by software company Oracle and done by the Economist Intelligence Unit says that services like Skype will ultimately undermine voice as a reliable, large, revenue producer. "(O)ver 80 percent of industry executives believe that voice calls will no longer make-up the primary revenue source for communications carriers within six years. Furthermore, over half of the senior executives questioned believe this will happen within the next four...