Related link: http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2005/04/06/sprint_ceo_predict…
I was consulting for a company a while ago that was predicting this – and now it seems like it’s going to go mainstream. Once you have flat fee data over your mobile phone, why not use a Vonage or a Skype over that link? And the first cell provider to dodge that bullet by embracing it will hopefully not cannibalize their own per-minute-billing business.
You down with VOIP? Yah, you know me.
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no flat fee
Nowhere does it mention flat fee service.
If it’s to be like services currently being rolled out in Europe you’ll pay a flat connection fee plus a charge per amount of data received (or sent). Those charges can get rather high, typically starting at around €1.50 ($2) per megabyte (with of course a minimum charge per month).
yes flat fee
yes, it doesn’t mention flat fee service – but in the US market, you’re flat fee or it’s no go. In europe, they also charge the caller differently for calling a mobile phone, and they also have a single standard, and there are a few other differences.
A vonage symbian app is what i’m envisioning. It could be written today; the tech is not the issue; it’s the business model as you point out.
So I took the article as an indication that a mobile carrier is at least *looking* at the fact that they could lose market share to a wireless Vonage play and do it themselves.
yes flat fee
oh, and i DO have flat fee data over both my phones. $20 a month for GPRS and $80 a month for EDGE. I’m the one who mentioned flat fee.
The most practical way to terminate VOIP calls via cellular phones seems to be vonkall. You do not need high speed internet on the cellular. Connect to the internet wit a phone call to vonkall voip access system. A call from any phone to vonkall has you voiping offline.