____/ Mark Kent on Monday 31 December 2007 00:46 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ Mark Kent on Saturday 29 December 2007 23:10 : \____
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> ____/ Mark Kent on Wednesday 19 December 2007 14:13 : \____
>>>>
>>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>>> Static on the Dream Phone
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>>>| Meanwhile, cracks are appearing in the control that cellular carriers
>>>>>>| have long held over their networks. Verizon announced last month that
>>>>>>| it will open its network to ?any application and any device? by the end
>>>>>>| of next year.
>>>>>>|
>>>>>>| [...]
>>>>>>|
>>>>>>| Cellular carriers need to embrace this insight. Winner-take-all profits
>>>>>>| can be achieved by opening up their networks and then harnessing
>>>>>>| community contributions (including the contributions of software
>>>>>>| developers) to improve ? or invent ? new services. Google is trying
>>>>>>| this with its new Open Handset Alliance, which combines an open-source
>>>>>>| phone platform with an Internet-style application development model.
>>>>>> `----
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/15/opinion/15oreilly.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> It's unlikely that the mobile carriers will be able to make up in
>>>>> revenue from new services what they were getting from their walled
>>>>> gardens, but it's even less likely that they'll be able to retain their
>>>>> walled gardens in perpetuity...
>>>>
>>>> Paul Allen has jumped onto the same bandwagon just now (it's in the news).
>>>> Things are changing fast. Last week there was also an article about
>>>> bittorrent-like (pooling connectivity a la OLPC) for phones. Very
>>>> disruptive.
>>>>
>>>
>>> It'll be possible to pool capacity for data services, but for real-time
>>> streaming, it won't work.
>>
>> So text messages maybe? Despatch when a relay is available? That would kill
>> an industry that (can't recall the numbers for sure ATM) relies on 10 or 100
>> billion messages (=fee) per day.
>>
>
> I'm sure it could work very well for messaging and file transfer. As
> you suggest, it will undermine the revenues of SMS, so the mobile
> cariers will likely fight this in any way they can.
There has already been some FUD about IPTV. It came from a British mobile
carrier (can't recall which one) and the FUD something to do with "terrorism".
Yes, it made you roll your eyes...
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