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What would be disruptive is an iPhone-like device with unlimited 3G-speed-or-better data loaded up with skype, a jabber/irc client, and the iphone's other goodi
by Xichekolas 19y ago
What would be disruptive is an iPhone-like device with unlimited 3G-speed-or-better data loaded up with skype, a jabber/irc client, and the iphone's other goodies.
Why are we still paying per-text-message and why do we still have monthly minute limits? It's all data anyway.
The disruptive moment is when wireless net connections become as flat-rate/fast/boring as wired net connections.
- ambition 19y agoI thought it wasn't all just data. Don't some cell networks still have circuit-switched voice and packet-switched data?
- wmf 19y agoYeah, like all of them AFAIK. And packet-switched voice isn't automatically cheaper than circuit-switched.
- elai 19y agoCurrently telecom is all IP based. Telcos have a circuit switched system at the last mile for backward compatibility and profit reasons, but from your local CO to the terminating call CO is IP based. The telcos also own the internet connections as a tier one providers, so most of it is privately routed. But yeah, the circuit switched system still exists only for backward compat. for the existing system. Cost for call routing has gone down significantly for telcos ever since the 1990s. (Some shithole countries do not apply.)