Comments on: Updated: Skype, Margins Still Weigh on eBay

By: jimmy Geisler

jimmy Geisler — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:27:28 +0000

Great post! Really love reading them, can’t wait for more.

By: For Skypers, First The Party, Then The Job Cuts - GigaOM

For Skypers, First The Party, Then The Job Cuts - GigaOM — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 04:31:25 +0000

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95 percent of all VOIP traffic is caused by Skype | Fresh Web 2.0 News — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:47:06 +0000

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By: spg

spg — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 01:00:11 +0000

the problem with skype and most other voip is that it is being sold as a value product and not for functionality. Why are the skype to skype minutes dropping. Regular phone calls are getting cheaper and so there is less reason to use any alternative to dialing an old fashion phone. Cell phone beat everything on the convience factor. Call costs on regular phone networks will come down further untill we soon pay a small monthly fee for unlited calls to anyplace. At that point most skype(and other voip) users will find little reason continue with the complication of an aditional phone(or soft client) with aditional phone number, etc.

I am not saying that voip has no future. It does as a premium priced way of add features to telephony or for some type of direct communications toggled from a website(jaxtr,Tringme,etc.). Basic simple voice calls (the vast majority of what skype is used for) will return to the major carriers as their prices drop close to zero.

By: Markus Göbel's Tech News Comments

Markus Göbel's Tech News Comments — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:36:44 +0000

It just has happened:

WiMax has been approved as an official International Telecommunication Union (ITU) mobile wireless standard, according to an email posted on the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) 802.16e Working Group reflector last night.

News that WiMax is now officially a member of the IMT-2000 family of 3G standards should make it easier for operators to deploy networks in markets where spectrum is allocated specifically to IMT technologies.

Congratulations!

By: Markus Göbel's Tech News Comments

Markus Göbel's Tech News Comments — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:41:33 +0000

Wimax rocks and can substitute not only mobile phone networks, but also wifi.

You get a cheap flatrate contract that you can use on all your devices. No SIM card necessary and no overpriced 2 years contract. Wouldn’t you love to have the iPhone without the expensive contract from AT&T, but with great bandwith that equals wifi and is everywhere to be had? The Xohm network offers a DSL like experience yet in all Chicago and the surrounding suburbs, even in driving trains and cars with a seamless handover between cells. Motorola say they built it up in just 2 weeks.

I just wrote a longer article about this topic, but only in German. So I recommend what Vinay from India just wrote in his blog:

Thursday, October 18, 2007 Why WIMAX will succeed? http://voipguides.blogspot.com/2007/10/why-wimax-will-succeed.html

At the Mobile Broadband Forum Europe in Berlin a Nortel spokesman said to me: “The coolest device would be an iPod Touch with Wimax”. And Motorola told me that they have such devices already in their laboratories. So great things are to come, maybe already in this year’s HOliday season.

That’s much better than “persuading all your friends to use the same mobile carrier”, as Jesse Kopelman recommends.

Many people cross fingers that the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) takes the right decision in favour of mobile Wimax when they now decide about the further 3G development. Especially Koreans would be happy, since they already got their proprietary “Wibro” standardized as “mobile Wimax” (802.16e). Now they hope that ITU standardizes it also as IMT-2000, which is the regulation for mobile cellphone broadband.

By: Jesse Kopelman

Jesse Kopelman — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:07:38 +0000

@GeraldZ

What!? Mobile to mobile calling is already free. Why do I need Skype? Is persuading all your friends to use Skype over this future WiMAX network any different than persuading all your friends to use the same mobile carrier today?

By: Buy eBay…Wait, Sell eBay…Wait… « GigaOM

Buy eBay…Wait, Sell eBay…Wait… « GigaOM — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:38:19 +0000

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By: JC

JC — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 06:49:55 +0000

Check out the 3 Skype Phone — it’s not out yet, but it’s coming soon in UK. Hope to see something like it here in the U.S.! Probably wishful thinking given mobile carrier stronghold.

By: Tanto

Tanto — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 05:51:23 +0000

Why don't they make a Skype phone? That would be cool. I want free cell phone service...

Team up with Motorola, use wimax...

By: Kevin Kelleher

Kevin Kelleher — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 02:19:00 +0000

Maybe, but a lot of competitors can pop up over the course of ten years.

By: GeraldZ

GeraldZ — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:48:07 +0000

eBay’s acquisition of Skype was ingenious. In ten years traditional cell phone networks will be obsolete. WiMax will blanket the nation with high-speed wireless internet and you will have a WiMax phone attached to your hip. In fact your home telephone will also be wireless ip – and Skype to Skype calls are free. Which service will you use for your internet calling? The biggest and the best . . .

http://www.InternetTvTalk.com