BellSouth touts video IM
BellSouth customers will soon be able to chat face to face over the carrier's DSL service.
Marguerite Reardon Former senior reporter
Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies.
Soon customers of BellSouthÂ’s DSL service will be able to chat face to face with their friends and family over the Internet. The regional phone company announced yesterday that it is trialing a video chat service that allows customers with a Webcam and microphone to chat through the BellSouth instant-messaging client.
Call me old fashioned, but I think IÂ’d rather stick with the kind of IM where no one has to know that I am sitting at my computer in my pajamas.