AOL’s (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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