--- On Tue, 8/12/08, SIP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure how charging for something that has lasted > this long for free will necessarily kill it off.
I hate to say this, but going from a million users to 800 is pretty much the same as killing it. The whole point behind FWD is that you can talk for free to people who are connected to the FWD network. If the people are gone - so is FWD. > That's $24,000/year more than you had before to handle > costs such as bandwidth, hosting, hardware maintenance, > etc (none of which are minimal). And who's going to pay the sysadmins? If you can find me a competent sysadmin that'll work for a $24k/year salary - I have a job for them. ;);) > More important questions for ME would be are they still > going to allow incoming calls into their network from > outside? Or will you have to be an official FWD peer (which > is a pay-per-connection peering network) ? I don't think this is going to matter, given the user count will drop so drastically that there will be no reason to peer to them anyway... I think pretty much the only users who will pay are those who will do so in a "thank you for the past" manner. I don't see anyone paying because they think they'll derive actual value from the "new" PWD. So basically, you're left with a handful of users, and zero prospects to gain NEW users. A year later the chances of the existing users to remain get slimmer.. and the more users leave - the less motivation existing users have to remain. Sounds to me like a recipe for a dying service. Don't get me wrong- I have nothing against FWD and I wish them all the best. But I think they are making a HUGE mistake here and they will probably not survive it. -- Nitzan Kon, CEO Future Nine Corporation www.future-nine.com _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
