http://gigaom.com/2011/10/20/will-openflow-lower-your-phone-bill-2/ Fri, 24 May 2013 17:15:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/2011/10/20/will-openflow-lower-your-phone-bill-2/#comment-667695 Mon, 24 Oct 2011 21:38:21 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=424337#comment-667695 If OpenFlow has a shot at lowering near-term costs for providers (wireless or otherwise) it would be through reducing OpEx more than CapEx. That is, OpenFlow has the potential to improve automation much sooner than it will drive down hardware costs, which may also happen but only some years down the road.

]]> http://gigaom.com/2011/10/20/will-openflow-lower-your-phone-bill-2/#comment-666508 Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:51:05 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=424337#comment-666508 Stacey, OpenFlow may lower service provider costs (or may not, I have no idea), but it won’t lower phone bills. There is very little correlation between the cost of providing service and the price being charged. The only thing that will lower phone bills is true competition.

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