Are the European Telcos different or the Europeans?
... or are the telcos whistling in the dark?
Interesting post of Richard Stastny.
Why
Forrester Research believes that pure plays have no chance of dethroning proactive European incumbent Telco's from their consumer fixed voice market leadership?
And:
Telco's like British Telecom and France Telecom can continue to dominate future voice markets as long as they maintain their proactive and innovative VoIP response strategies.
There is a basic difference between USA and Europe.
The first exists, the second exists only on the paper.
In the first we have 300 millions Americans speaking the same language.
In the second we have 450 millions of "French, Germans, Italians, Uks and so on..." speaking different languages.
In the first the FULL POPULATION has the need to call long distance (California to New York).
In the second, just few companies have the need to call long distance and those few are managed mostly by OLD people, OLD THINKING and BEHAVING people who see the new TECHNOLOGIES as something scaring and damaging.
And indeed damaging they are.
Europe is the OLD WORLD, still shaped in the "Mafia Fashion" where few families (Monopolies) control the economy because they control the Politics.
And this "Mafia" survives and guaranties to all "associates" the right profits.
Why should they embrace "Disruptive Technologies" and change the Status Quo?
The Mafia survives thanks to the fact that there is no fight among the "families" and the profits are equally distributed among all.
The eventual fight is on the "how much" but not the "who".
If they made a referendum through Europe right now, I think ALL would vote NO, but not because they do not believe in Europe, THEY DO NOT BELIEVE IN THIS EUROPE.
And as long as they will be able to keep the "Status Quo" there won't be any space for VoIP, for Progress and for innovation.
And we REALLY SHOULDN'T BLAME CHINA FOR THAT.
"Chi e' fonte dei suoi mal pianga se stesso"
The only ones to blame would be ourselves
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In this Voip Blog apparently,
href="http://www.voipnoise.com/blog/index.php/weblog/voip_over_dialup_netzero/">NetZero
works over dialup! In the article, they say that the people in the company say that it
works well and that you can use it while browsing!
Sorry, I guess my html was bad.. I was saying:
In this Voip Blog apparently, NetZero works over dialup! In the article, they say that the people in the company say that it works well and that you can use it while browsing!
This is a very interesting article. You can't just pick two properties of Europe and combine them with VoIP. First of all, the fact that there are less long distance calls being made doesn't mean that there is no demand for VoIP services. The second one, about the monopolies, is not true any more for at least a decade. Since the introduction of competition in de telco market, many companies have emerged. VoIP will disrupt everything, but to achieve this, first strategic behavior of existing companies must be overwon and legislation must adapt.
The same happens in the US. Incumbents delay the adoption process and legally there's no consensus between the states.
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