Comments on: Why mobile must solve its data dilemma – or die

By: J.

J. — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 16:37:56 +0000

No, thank you.

By: text message

text message — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 15:40:36 +0000

Text Message Marketing Allow customers to request real-time information about your business via text message, while putting your contact information in the customer’s phone for future reference as well as allow you to capture customer’s mobile number.

By: Tzahi Efrati

Tzahi Efrati — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 10:21:22 +0000

As someone who’s working in the OTT business, I’d like to ask a naive question: why can’t we all (OTT players) get alone?

It strikes me funny that while we have all these nifty features, our users are siloed-in our own VoIP garden. Why can’t Rebtel users talk to Skype users or WhatsApp users text friends on Viber?

Are we so afraid of users turning to other players that we won’t consider providing simple inter-connectivity, something the “dumb pipes” (as we enjoy so much calling them) have been doing since day 1?

By: Kevin Fitchard

Kevin Fitchard — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 18:19:34 +0000

Hi Andreas, Good post!

Like you, I’m not so convinced RCS is going to be a cure-all — especially if the value proposition is selling what is essentially Viber or WhatApp for $20 a month rather than give it away for free.

But I do think the operators have a very powerful tool if they can figure out how to use it: the universal ID of the phone number. Essentially everyone in the world is “in network”, which not even Facebook can claim.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 12:55:50 +0000

Wow, Alan Quayle made some really good points. Having multiple IM clients for multiple IM networks really was to the detriment of IM – seems like an OTT OTT network is the best solution.

By: Tsahi Levent-Levi

Tsahi Levent-Levi — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 11:40:12 +0000

This was my view as well, until I read Alan Quayle’s insightful post about the history of instant messaging and the future of OTT players: http://www.alanquayle.com/blog/2012/05/reviewing-the-history-of-insta.html

The truth will lie somewhere in-between the world view suggested by Andreas Bernström and that of Alan Quayle.