3 posts tagged “voip”
I think Three seems like a company that's at least a little bit willing to challenge the way things are done. In UK they've recently cut the roaming charges to 10p when recieving and 19 when calling. This isn't really cheap, but it's at least way below what most operators charge.
In some other mobile news from blognation they point at some more details around the Truphone court case that we've been talking about here at Rebtel. I think it's interesting to see how Truphone is trying to see themselves as a mobile operator while the incumbents are desperate to have Truphone viewed as a fixed line operator - and thus be able to give them less for the transfer of calls.
If you look at the previous post I made and the Rebtel blog I would say it's not only in such countries such as Bangladesh, India and Pakistan that regulators are tough - even the US has it's share of "old fat cats" want to keep their old revenue sources.
A lot of domains are taken over by disruptive force controlled by networks of people rather than single entities and it's just waiting to happen to the cellphone industry. In US the operators have control over who can send SMS on the network they even control who can route calls to them and use this power to block VoIP users.
However - it seems that the inevitable change to this is coming - Truphone has recently got a court order that T-Mobile has to stop blocking their calls... Seems like even the mammoths of telecom will need to budge.
I think this is typical to what any industry will have to face as the power moves from huge corporations to smaller startups, communities of users and products that doesn't need as much anymore to be created and spread.
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