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Hoot-n-holler found a home at brokerage firms in the 1960's, where it became more sophisticated and grew into the speakerphone and conference-call technology many businesses use today. Hoot-n-holler is still used extensively in the financial community to share market updates and trading orders and is also used at news agencies, weather bureaus, transportation providers, and in manufacturing work environments. According to Cisco Systems, some larger financial firms budget 2-3 million dollars a year just for distribution of their hoot-n-holler feeds to remote branch offices. Voice over IP (VoIP) hoot-n-holler is slowly gaining popularity and is being promoted as a cost-effective solution for "party-line" communication because it still allows users in a hoot-n-holler network to talk simultaneously if they want to, but also allows any idle bandwidth to be reclaimed and used by data applications. 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