tmc8080
join:2004-04-24
Floral Park, NY
| cripple voip packets
voip is killing off the plain old telephone subscriptions as it should, however telcos will draw a line in the sand for wireless broadband... voip over wireless threatens to kill off a cash cow that has the most surcharged telecommunications service in the telco industry (for which consumers roll over and gladly empty their pockets). they keep smart phones that have potential voip application either from being made or at such a high price, it would only go to those who would buy cell phone service anyway because they're so rich, it wouldn't matter.. it's just a value added application.
Verizon will not allow voip to replace cell service. It is their biggest profit ROI service-- almost as good as the hay-days of just after Ma-Bell broke up. Together, Verizon and AT&T are majority carriers in the cell industry. Sprint and Tmobile, and other minority share carriers get the scraps left over.
This still doesn't mean that wireless voip devices shouldn't be made... voip applications are already popping up in portable media players, proprietary wifi phones, gps devices, and probably digital cameras and cars next. |
