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It's about margins. If a business got rid of their land line, and moved all their communications to the cloud (using tools powered by twilio), ATT would capture
by nestlequ1k 15y ago
It's about margins. If a business got rid of their land line, and moved all their communications to the cloud (using tools powered by twilio), ATT would capture just a tiny fraction of what they would if they were just billing the business monthly for phone service.
- swombat 15y agoThe cloud still requires a phone line.
- nestlequ1k 15y agoSince when? I haven't had a phone line for 10 years. Yet I'm here.
- druiid 15y agoReally? I'll elucidate. There hasn't been a national copper interconnect (POTS) for a long time now. You might, have copper to the house but after that it's fiber all the way down. AT&T and all the large carriers leverage this to carry your voice traffic as data and on top of that can carry 'internet data' and whatever else. With AT&T goes the data, even if you haven't had a 'phone line' in a long time.
- nestlequ1k 15y agoNo one says ATT doesn't still get some money. But wouldn't you rather be the one sending the final customer a bill for 50/mo? There's a reason wireless companies have been fighting vigorously to avoid becoming dumb pipes.
- thesis 15y agoAre you serious? That's like saying you it's better to own a website, rather then own Amazon EC2 or <insert any datacenter here>.
- nestlequ1k 15y agoYeah, I'm serious. I'd rather own Facebook than the servers it operates on.
- cube13 15y agoWho provides the bandwidth and hardware for the cloud? Hint: It's not twilio. It's companies like AT&T, Level 3, Amazon, MS, etc.
- toomuchtodo 15y agoHe who controls OSI Layer 1 controls the profits.
- chronomex 15y agoHe who controls the bits ... controls the Internet!