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Zuckerberg Dines with European Telco Execs

posted by Dopefish on Friday February 28 2014, @08:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the nickle-and-dime dept.

strattitarius writes "Mark Zuckerberg met with top mobile and telco executives to address concerns that Internet providers are becoming "simple pipes" as apps like WhatsApp eat into high-margin over-the-top services such as text messaging and even voice communications. Orange SA CEO Stephane Richard stated "The risk for us is being excluded from the world of services".

It would seem that the telcos are realizing that they have been behind the curve as Richard stated "A service like WhatsApp, to be honest, that's something we could've and should've come up with before". Ironically in doing so, they basically make the case that they had every chance and advantage to create these apps and monetize them just as WhatsApp and Skype have done."

 
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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 28 2014, @09:31AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 28 2014, @09:31AM (#8473)

    A pipe is a service. And the most important one at that. Maybe they should concentrate at making that service as good as possible.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Friday February 28 2014, @09:45AM

    by c0lo (156) on Friday February 28 2014, @09:45AM (#8481)

    A pipe is a service. And the most important one at that. Maybe they should concentrate at making that service as good as possible.

    <gratuitously-pedantic mode="on">To me, a pipe is an utility. Delivering whatever that pipe is meant to support is indeed a service</gratuitously-pedantic>

    Other than that, I agree.

  • (Score: 1) by Runaway1956 on Friday February 28 2014, @11:23AM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) on Friday February 28 2014, @11:23AM (#8538) Journal

    What on EARTH do you mean by "as good as possible"? Surely, the masses aren't demanding more than a mere trickle of data, are they? Isn't it enough that email loads in less than a minute? Streaming? Whatever for? They should be happy with a connection fast enough to download a movie each week.

    Forget "as good as possible", we just want more money for the less than adequate service we already offer!!

  • (Score: 1) by Dunbal on Friday February 28 2014, @01:40PM

    by Dunbal (3515) on Friday February 28 2014, @01:40PM (#8630)

    Hah! That would take actual work. It's much better when we all agree to be lazy and sub-let someone else's pipe. When service degrades enough we can always blame it on pirates, porn and pedophiles until someone else's technology saves us again. Then we can put our rental prices up again and let big fiber take care of the actual physical network.

    • (Score: 1) by glyph on Saturday March 01 2014, @01:24AM

      by glyph (245) on Saturday March 01 2014, @01:24AM (#8978)

      When service degrades enough we can always blame it on pirates, porn and pedophiles until our captive legislators fix the rules of the game again.

      FTFY