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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: 1) by isostatic on Friday February 28 2014, @02:26PM

    by isostatic (365) on Friday February 28 2014, @02:26PM (#8665)

    Why do you think you're paying for it? The costs of offering it with or without the phone service are probably insignificant, less than the costs of offering two separate systems. I believe that the way BT was structured in the unbundling of 15 years ago, it means you have to be charged separately, to prevent the monopolistic situation they have in the states.

    If Virgin works for you, that's great, that's where we have a competition, in the ground (Virgin vs BT vs Wireless), and in the DSL cabinet (BT vs Zen vs Talk Talk vs A&A vs etc)

    To be honest I have no idea how much I pay for my BT line, I get 80 down, 40 up, and it works fine with my mitel handset.