Comment Telecom is doing itself a huge disservice (Score 1) 110
A message on this forum prompted me to think in the long term. What I see happenning is this:
1. Telecom forces everyne over to 0867, Everyone is pissed off.
2. Telecom degrades quality of connection for 0867 and/or charges for it. Many switch to xtra.
3. A HUGE market opportunity opens for a company that can provide cheap, fast(er), dedicated (24/7) internet access (eg. Saturn).
4. This company(companies) moves in, and captures most of the market back from telecom by providing access at a reasonable rate, relaible, dedicated, and OUTSIDE THE TELECOM NETWORK.
5. End result: Through this chain of events, telecom has lost control of the Internet alltogether, and within a few years, telecom is a dwindling company for those small number of people who still insist on amking direct calls through them (nostalgia, maybe :))
Feel free to comment, it seems a reasonable rough outline of what is likely to happen if this continues
1. Telecom forces everyne over to 0867, Everyone is pissed off.
2. Telecom degrades quality of connection for 0867 and/or charges for it. Many switch to xtra.
3. A HUGE market opportunity opens for a company that can provide cheap, fast(er), dedicated (24/7) internet access (eg. Saturn).
4. This company(companies) moves in, and captures most of the market back from telecom by providing access at a reasonable rate, relaible, dedicated, and OUTSIDE THE TELECOM NETWORK.
5. End result: Through this chain of events, telecom has lost control of the Internet alltogether, and within a few years, telecom is a dwindling company for those small number of people who still insist on amking direct calls through them (nostalgia, maybe
Feel free to comment, it seems a reasonable rough outline of what is likely to happen if this continues
