Very interesting topic for sure :) and very interesting point made here.
Looking forward to read more on this... > This is partially off topic, as it's not strictly Asterisk-related... > > I know the anti-dumping laws in the US manufacturing and trade > industries are geared toward international suppliers and protection of > US companies. I'm curious, though, are there similar laws for technology > (and, if not, should there be)? > > I was thinking about this this morning as I read the news about the > first non Grand-Central users getting the Google Voice invites, and as I > was going over the Google Voice services. One of them is calls to > anywhere in the US for free, and it got me wondering. Currently, Google > Voice has no ads, so there's no incoming revenue to offset the cost of > termination to US phone lines. Which means, in essence, that Google is > likely giving this service away purely as a loss-leader to grab users > and drive out competition. Will the terms change later on? Hard to say. > Like all things Google, the service will likely remain tagged 'Beta' > long after it's one of the top-used services on the Internet. > > Would then Skype be able to come back and do the same thing as an effort > to recapture any lost users? Or would that fall under some sort of > anti-dumping umbrella because it's now a foreign company that's giving > services away below cost? > > Do services even have similar legal fair-trade protections? > > Any ideas about the whole thing? > > N. > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- > > asterisk-biz mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz Rehan Ahmed AllahWala President & CEO - Super Technologies Inc. http://www.supertec.com/ - Internet Telephony Solutions Don't Remember Me ? Visit http://www.Rehan.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." By Gandhi. _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
