Comments on: Who Killed the VoIP Revolution?

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:00:15 +0000

Now I’m a SIP user and an ordinary member of the public.

The real problem with SIP to the public is public visibility and ease of use:
1. Who out of the public understands SIP, VOIP, Asterisk, POTS, QOS, PSTN etc.etc.??
2. People do not want to get on their pc’s, choose the software. (Maybe hardware instead that often has an awfully full array of settings).
3. Find a SIP company and then pay them money up front. (Often, they are not so cheap nor reliable).
4. Work out how to put the settings to use into the pc or hardware.
5. Learn all about how to make free SIP to SIP calls. From geeky howtos written in gobbledy gook.

All they want to do is load Skype and use a login. Done.
Thats what the public want. Upfront its like an IM, they can handle that.
If they later wish to go the hardware route then they find that is simple too.

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By: Amish

Amish — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:12:25 +0000

Offering stuff free on the internet may just well prove to be the original sin, as we are seeing with the impending doom of journalism.

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By: Ian Bell

Ian Bell — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:03:30 +0000

Daniel makes a great point here.

And for those of you who think that Skype never figured out how to make money from VoIP, Zennstrom can provide a couple billion examples of just exactly how wrong you are.

As a final epitaph for this piece, which has caused me no small amount of difficulty among my peers in the nextgen telecom space lately, I will say this: Skype, and by extension voice chat, is fundamentally an internet application. Most applications we use on the internet are free. Do the math.

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By: Daniel Berninger

Daniel Berninger — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:32:17 +0000

Ian does a nice job of summarizing why the revolution never existed, not that it died. The failure to find an alternative to the telco usage based revenue model predetermined the outcome. Moore’s law continues to act on various ecosystem components, connectivity options continue to improve, and new devices continue to arrive, but revolution remains contingent on finding a sustainable revenue model. The lack of an alternative to burning VC cash represents a problem for the broader Internet, not just VoIP. Free World Dialup (SIP registration) expects to complete a transition to paid membership by the end of the year. The unpopular move eliminated the cost of supporting users that do not value the service. We can now watch and wait as the lack of investment dollars shrinks the number of free competitors. The arrival of a SIP client for iPhone (see fring.com) doubled the pace of new users since early October. No revolution as yet, but the possibility for one remains.

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By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 01:39:51 +0000

You are very wrong about VoIP. Take a look at Bank of America, Best Buy, CVS, Ford, Wachovia,and Thousands more.
They all moved their service from POTS to VoIP. They saved millions in phone bills, and taxes. I own a very profitable VoIP Company. VOIP is dead, huh! It’s just the beginning. Thanks for slowing down my competition. In 10 years, most of your telephone lines will run over a VoIP Pllatform. It is already happening daily. You could not be more wrong.