Steve Kennedy wrote:
On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 10:45:52PM +0800, Ronald Wiplinger wrote:
Skype is very succesfsfull and get more and more users, ... we can
ignore them, accept them or do something,...
My suggestion is that we try to do something, ...
If we would peer to each other, than we get soon also a great amount of
users together, and than our service becomes more valuable, ...
Let's discuss advantages and disadvantages!
Skype is a p2p (i.e. really person to person) protocol. It's proprietry
and quite clever. They are trying to make money with PSTN breakout,
break-in, voicemail and other value-add services.
They use SIP/G.729 for interconnection with PSTN networks to carriers.
Skype will continue growing and will gain a large user base, however if
they have a long term model is as yet unknown as traditional carriers
I assume their many recent deals with traditional carriers is probably
their business plan.
move to voice over packet. Look at BT in the UK with their 21CN plans,
the PSTN will be switched-off by 2009. It's likely that voice calls (at
least in the UK) will be bundled with line-rental as it will cost more
to bill than transporting packets around.
Charging for local calls hasn't made any sense for years. It never
stopped them charging before. I think the jury is still out on what they
will attempt to achieve.
Regards,
Steve
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