T-Mobile Releases New Card, Outlaws VoIP and IM 266
An anonymous reader writes "T-Mobile has launched a new 3G data card in the UK, and banned users from using it for VoIP or instant messaging applications." From the article: "Lock cast doubt on the sustainable viability of a mobile operator banning VoIP from its network. 'I think that eventually, if there's customer demand for this, it will happen," Lock said. "Other organizations will come along allowing VoIP. Who do you think is going to win?'"
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Re:... where's all that bandwidth going again? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:... where's all that bandwidth going again? (Score:5, Funny)
It all depends on how much Caffeine you've consumed, my friend.
Re:... where's all that bandwidth going again? (Score:3, Funny)
T-Mobile (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Too early to tell (Score:3, Funny)
From the horse's mouth to ya: (Score:2, Funny)
I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone.
Jack Valenti, at a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee 04-12-1982
So, one must be mad thinking that the cellphone companies will roll over for VOIP and lose their voice cashcow. Have you actually looked at how much they charge? $0.75/min for an international phonecall that costs $0.05 (PC-to-Phone, from Deltathree in my case). Considering it costs cell companies maybe all of $0.02, if that, to actually carry my call (which they ALSO do over the internet fiber, with a lossy compression, and not over the analog wire like the phone companies)
The companies are not going to adopt new technology when they are already making good proffits, they never have and never will.
Plenty of examples:
1) Europeans sticking to horses & wind sailing (until a whole new country, America, invented the steam-boat, the steam-engine/railroads, the radio, the light-buld, and the airplane
2) T. Edison, a DC power tycoon, squashing N. Tesla's AC until he got bitchslaped by competition
3) film industry decrying VCR in the 1980's
4) Apple getting cozy with their market share in the early 90's and cutting R&D,
5) oil companies in the 2000's squashing alternative fuel research