I already use VoIP on my iPhone on 3G. That way I give out that number instead of my real cell phone number.
Sent from my iPhone4 On Jan 27, 2011, at 10:25 AM, Roger Howard <g5inter...@gmail.com> wrote: > I keep seeing complaints from operators talking about the woes of > Netflix breaking business models etc. > >> From certain comments I've seen, many of you seem to be looking at > this wrong. No-one should ever have sold unlimited data. Unlimited > data pricing is like T1 or T3 pricing. You can't get unlimited > broadband for $50/mo. This was destined to fail from the beginning. > > Anyone who couldn't see TV ever going over Internet lines was blind. > And we're only seeing the early beginnings of it. There's going to be > more and more HD stuff. > > Netflix hasn't broken anything. People's service plans were already > broken. You were selling stuff you couldn't provide. You were > effectively selling T1 lines for $50/mo. Bandwidth usage was always > going to go up. Weather it's Netflix or something else. It was only > time before your business model would fail. We have had bandwidth > limits posted on our website since 2007. > > http://g5i.net/internet.php > > People are now starting to hit them. The limits are fairly high. We > have about 5 or 6 people out of 300 who are hitting them each month > now. We're going to start throttling to 256k when the cap is met. That > way they can still do general Internet stuff, without being able to > watch video. And they can call up and pay extra in 10Gb increments to > get their high speed back. > > At the end of the day people, you are paid to provide an Internet > connection. Be that to Netflix or Hulu or be that just for email. Sell > something that you are able to provide. > > Take advantage of the situation. I'm getting more and more people > signing up for my $80/mo package. That means more revenue so I can buy > more bandwidth. We're trying to accommodate online video as best we > can. > > Don't get me wrong, the sudden leap in bandwidth usage has caught me > without enough bandwidth. But it hasn't broken my business model... > yet. > > I have seen people talking about triple play. I don't think that's the > way forward. I think the cell companies are eventually going to have > to become dumb pipes, and sell just mobile broadband. People will use > VoIP instead of voice minutes. > > Be a dumb pipe, and offer VoIP, also. Let people get their video > content from online providers. I think this is the way forward. > > Thanks, > Roger > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
