Joining an already crowded market, America Online on Monday confirmed it is testing its own Internet phone service.

The service, which AOL has been testing since early summer, will let customers place phone calls over the Internet, according to AOL spokeswoman Anne Bentley. The trials are preliminary and limited to a select number of testers.

AOL declined to say when the offering will be officially launched. However, people testing the service said on Broadbandreports.com that AOL is looking to launch it in 2005.

-- since they have such a large number of people signed up for the internet already, this will get VOIP a very big boast (a good thing)
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