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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 Sunday March 02 2014, @08:08PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 02 2014, @08:08PM (#9830)

    I know it probably doesn't mean much but I visited the IRC channel once earlier on while everyone was still discussing the problems that this site will have being funded (and a bunch of other things) and I since haven't really been following up. I've still been visiting Slashdot and have been ... disappointed by both the posted stories and by the comments. They were/are sub-par to say the least. I just revisited this site and am very impressed by how much it advanced. The story quality is good and the comments so far seem to be a huge improvement over what Slashdot is now. Thanks.