Computerworld has an article on the changing telecom business focusing on Skype.
When you add in companies like Popular Telephony who were profiled in Business 2.0 by Om Malik, you begin to see a new concept coming alive.
It’s not disintermediation of the telephony. I call it reintermediation. Here’s why.
These companies are not seeking to make calls only free. They are looking to make things right in the future. Carriers can take two types of models. In model one they carry the traffic, but do not provide the services. Those are provided by service providers who ride on what ever network is available.
The second is the network is the heart of the telecom world and all the user needs to do is have access.
Both have a free and paid component, and neither is geared only to the “I want it all free.” Those people never pay, and that means no one, not the networks, the carriers, the service providers or the intellectual property owners make one red cent.
”’you must EVOLVE or DIE”’
Says IT ALL in one easy sentence!!
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