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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 28 2014, @09:38AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 28 2014, @09:38AM (#8476)

    How do you know that it is not a genuine error? Given how often I've seen "iceburg" instead of "iceberg", it is definitely not unlikely.

  • (Score: 1) by mindriot on Friday February 28 2014, @09:53AM

    by mindriot (928) on Friday February 28 2014, @09:53AM (#8485)
    I agree, I think this is a genuine error. Nevertheless, editors, please fix it up! Leave the lousy editing to That Other Site ;-)
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    • (Score: 5, Informative) by mattie_p on Friday February 28 2014, @09:59AM

      by mattie_p (13) on Friday February 28 2014, @09:59AM (#8493) Journal

      Fixed now. But don't worry, we'll keep posting errors. The first person who finds a hundred wins the internet. Thanks for reading ~mattie_p