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Zuckerberg Dines with European Telco Execs

posted by Dopefish on Friday February 28 2014, @08:00AM   
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."

• Re:Telcos aren't aware yet Re:Telcos aren't aware yet (Score: 2, Interesting) by allsorts46 on Friday February 28 2014, @11:17AM

  by allsorts46 (574) on Friday February 28 2014, @11:17AM (#8532) Homepage

  Thanks for this. I was considering switching to BT Infinity (on Virgin right now), but I won't bother if they're going to force me to pay for a phone line too. Don't mind having one, but don't want to pay for something I never wanted in the first place.

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• Re:Telcos aren't aware yet (Score: 1) by dublet on Friday February 28 2014, @01:30PM

  by dublet (2994) on Friday February 28 2014, @01:30PM (#8622)

  I'm in the same boat as you, have Virgin but they're not great. At the very least they don't make me have a land line.

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