Reduced latency by using statistical multiplexing across channels-enhances the experience for latency sensitive services such as gaming, video telephony, remote console sessions and web browsing.

In May 2006, SK Telecom started the world's first commercial 3.5-generation HSDPA service, featuring high-quality video telephony and data transmission, and global roaming access.

IPTV customer-premises equipment (CPE) allows pay TV operators to deploy home entertainment, with video telephony, surveillance, gaming, shopping, e-government and interactive services amongst the service mix that can be offered.

Kirshenbaum Bond will handle branding assignments, mostly in metropolitan New York, for Cablevision holdings in video, local telephony and Internet services under names like Lightpath and Optimum.

It has 3.6 Mbit/s HSDPA, 262k color display, 512 MHz CPU, 50 MB on board memory, supports up to 8 GB microSD, video telephony and GPS.

And many believe that the next big shift will be the convergence of many forms of communication encompassing voice, e-mail, instant messaging and video telephony.

"I hope Apple is successful in convincing Cisco, Microsoft, Google, and others that FaceTime is a good standard for video telephony," Forrester analyst Charles Golvin wrote on his blog.

It is possible to use video telephony, video on demand, Reach Extended ADSL for 8 km lines soon.

Facial animation could also provide a more cost-effective means of video telephony.

The main goal of the NAL is the provision of a "network-friendly" video representation addressing "conversational" (video telephony) and "non conversational" (storage, broadcast, or streaming) applications.