DISQUS

Mashable - The Social Media Guide: 2008/08/23/mobile-voip-poll/

  • voipboss · 1 year ago
    I believe mobile voip has a very promising future. Apparently, the cable operators agree also. Most cable operators are stripping off "internet calling" from Windows Mobile smartphones which "by the way uses voip" before they are issued out to customers. The challenge voip has is the same as any other product. "Simplicity"!!! Most customers don't care about voip, 3g, data plans, etc. They just want a product that works and is cheap most of the time. The voip product we offer works with WiFi hotspots. Therefore, you must train and inform customers about locating and connecting to these hotspots around the country. Voip is definitely the future, it will take some time before your everyday non-techie starts voiping, but it's coming!!
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  • JimAtJaxtr · 1 year ago
    Since I work at a mobile voip company (Jaxtr--www.jaxtr.com), you can imagine that I'm an optimist on this subject. I think that the cat is out of the bag as to the fact that voip can significantly lower international calling costs for consumers. Ultimately, that's one of the biggest concerns for consumers (along with quality), and so long as quality is at least on par with big telecos, people will continue to spill over into the mobile voip space. How fast? I think a lot of that will have to do with mobile phone penetration into regions around the world, which from a lot of the numbers I have seen has been accelerating.